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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.
2 hours ago
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.
2 hours ago
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
4 hours ago
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
5 hours ago
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.
6 hours ago
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:
6 hours ago
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.
6 hours ago
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.
7 hours ago
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.
7 hours ago
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.
7 hours ago
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.
9 hours ago
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.
9 hours ago
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
9 hours ago
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.
9 hours ago
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
9 hours ago
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.
10 hours ago
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.
11 hours ago
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.
11 hours ago
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 hours ago
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
14 hours ago
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 […]
17 hours ago
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 […]
22 hours ago
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, […]
22 hours ago
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
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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!
12/09/2025
Partner Blog | Evolving our productivity offerings to resolve European competition concerns about Teams
In keeping with these values and responsibilities, Microsoft recently finalized an agreement with the European Commission (Microsoft’s “Commitments”) in which we will expand interoperability and data portability resources and make additional changes to licensing and pricing for Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams.Commitments to interoperability and data portabilityMicrosoft will maintain our add-in model, allowing communication and collaboration solution providers to access Microsoft 365 and Teams in the same ways as other software development companies that provide add-ins to Microsoft 365 and Teams.
12/09/2025
Revolutionizing Learning with Immersive AI
Instead of silently reading from a textbook, students log into an interactive platform powered by neural voice and avatar technology.Using Azure Speech Studio’s Avatar Engine, the generated audio is combined with animated lip movements, facial expressions, and gestures to create human-like avatar videos.This workflow describes the end-to-end process for creating avatar-driven audio and video content using Azure services and SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) files, culminating in downloadable video assets.
12/09/2025
Don’t miss our upcoming Azure Accelerate Partner Webinar on September 25
Azure Accelerate is Microsoft’s unified offering that brings together Azure Migrate and Modernize with Azure Innovate, built on the foundations of Azure Essentials.Azure Accelerate gives partners access to trusted experts, significant investments, and comprehensive coverage for every stage of the cloud and AI journey.Don’t miss our upcoming Azure Accelerate Partner Webinar on September 25, 8–9am PT, where we'll cover:
12/09/2025
People of Purview: Elie El Karkafi
I am a Microsoft MVP in Security and a results-driven and dedicated Senior Solutions Architect with more than 14 years of professional experience in Microsoft Technologies.I became a member of the Microsoft Customer Connection Program (MCCP) in 2022 and was honored with the Microsoft MVP award in Security in 2023.Elie is based in Dallas, Texas and is a Senior Solutions Architect at ampiO Solutions.
12/09/2025
Fantasy Football with a Copilot
Being a Dallas Cowboys fan is a bit like being in a long-term relationship with chaos, you love them, but you know better than to trust them with your fantasy football lineup.It can suggest optimal lineups based on projections and matchups tailored to your league’s scoring format.When it comes to the waiver wire, Copilot is a wizard.
12/09/2025
How to Build a Multilingual OCR AI Agent in Python with EasyOCR and OpenCV
In this tutorial, we build an Advanced OCR AI Agent in Google Colab using EasyOCR, OpenCV, and Pillow, running fully offline with GPU acceleration.The agent includes a preprocessing pipeline with contrast enhancement (CLAHE), denoising, sharpening, and adaptive thresholding to improve recognition accuracy.Beyond basic OCR, we filter results by confidence, generate text statistics, and […]
12/09/2025
Our commitment to help build AI skills in higher education
Microsoft Learn for Educators AI Bootcamps at no cost—Limited-time offerTo support institutions globally, we’re opening over 2,500 slots in our Microsoft Learn for Educators (MSLE) AI Bootcamps, available at no cost to all higher education faculty members.Expanding AI skilling through community and technical college partnerships
12/09/2025
Discover what’s in store at Microsoft Ignite 2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is just around the corner, taking place November 18–21, both online and in person.This year’s agenda is designed to deliver maximum value to partners with actionable insights and customer-centric storytelling.Secure your spot today by registering and selecting the partner program as your primary focus.
12/09/2025
Show or hide the Copilot icon in OneNote on Windows
I’m excited to share that we’ve added a simple but powerful customization option in OneNote on Windows: You can now choose whether to show or hide the Copilot icon in your notebook pages.Show or hide the Copilot icon in OneNote on WindowsSelect or clear the Show Copilot icon on OneNote pages check box.
12/09/2025
End‑to‑End Deep Content Workflow With Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot now stitches together a research‑to‑delivery pipeline that lets you produce authoritative content once, then repurpose it into formats that meet people where they are: on desktops, in meetings, in their earbuds during a commute, or on the big screen for live sessions.In this post I will first show you using out of the box Microsoft 365 Copilot how you can accomplish deep research that accomplishes all the above in 35 minutes rather than days.Then I used the same process to document for you how to do the demonstration in the real world with step by step written instructions, an audio podcast, and a how to video.
12/09/2025
How to setup alerts for deadlocks using Log Analytics
On the Azure Portal, open the Diagnostic settings of your Azure SQL Managed Instance and choose Add diagnostic settingStep 3 - Create a server audit on the Azure SQL Managed InstanceUse the query below to create an Alert on Azure Log Analytics
12/09/2025
The first temporary enforcement of dedicated hybrid app use is coming on September 16
We wanted to post a quick reminder that on September 16 2025, we will enforce the first temporary block of shared security principal use for our hybrid customers, as per our announcement Dedicated Hybrid App: temporary enforcements, new HCW and possible hybrid functionality disruptions.Your organization might be impacted if:You have not created and enabled the use of the dedicated Exchange hybrid app
12/09/2025
BentoML Released llm-optimizer: An Open-Source AI Tool for Benchmarking and Optimizing LLM Inference
BentoML has recently released llm-optimizer, an open-source framework designed to streamline the benchmarking and performance tuning of self-hosted large language models (LLMs).The tool addresses a common challenge in LLM deployment: finding optimal configurations for latency, throughput, and cost without relying on manual trial-and-error.Tuning LLM inference is […]
12/09/2025
Deepdub Introduces Lightning 2.5: A Real-Time AI Voice Model With 2.8x Throughput Gains for Scalable AI Agents and Enterprise AI
Deepdub, an Israeli Voice AI startup, has introduced Lightning 2.5, a real-time foundational voice model designed to power scalable, production-grade voice applications.The new release delivers substantial improvements in performance and efficiency, positioning it for use in live interactive systems such as contact centers, AI agents, and real-time dubbing.Performance and Efficiency Lightning 2.5 achieves […]
12/09/2025
Real AI development and real wins with the new VS Code extension for PostgreSQL
Launched at Build, the Visual Studio (VS) Code extension for PostgreSQL allows you to manage database objects and draft queries with intelligent assistance—all without leaving your favorite code editor.You will need the GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot chat extensions installed in VS Code to be able to log into your GitHub Account and use "@pgsql" in the chat interface to interact with your PostgreSQL database.The VS Code extension for PostgreSQL offers significant enhancements to development efficiency and productivity.
11/09/2025
TwinMind Introduces Ear-3 Model: A New Voice AI Model that Sets New Industry Records in Accuracy, Speaker Labeling, Languages and Price
TwinMind, a California-based Voice AI startup, unveiled Ear-3 speech-recognition model, claiming state-of-the-art performance on several key metrics and expanded multilingual support.The release positions Ear-3 as a competitive offering against existing ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) solutions from providers like Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Eleven Labs, Otter, Speechmatics, and OpenAI.The post TwinMind Introduces Ear-3 Model: A New Voice AI Model that Sets New Industry Records in Accuracy, Speaker Labeling, Languages and Price appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/09/2025
Cumulative Update #21 for SQL Server 2022 RTM
The 21st cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site.Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates.To learn more about the release or servicing model, please visit:Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern servicing model.
11/09/2025
The Future of AI Is Responsible—And Azure AI Foundry Is Leading the Way
Yet, with each leap forward, we've also encountered new risks that underscore the necessity of building trust through responsible AI.Without responsible AI moderation, users are at risk of encountering harmful content such as hate speech, graphic violence, misinformation, or harassment, which can lead to significant emotional distress, especially for children and other vulnerable individuals.Azure AI Foundry provides a multi-layered safety system designed to proactively detect, block, and monitor harmful or off-policy content.
11/09/2025
Achieving ATO and ATU for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365: A Foundational Guide
Achieving an Authorization to Operate (ATO) or Authority to Use (ATU) is a critical step in ensuring compliance with federal standards.Microsoft provides a robust framework to support these efforts through its Service Trust Portal, comprehensive documentation, and built-in compliance tools across Azure, Microsoft 365, and AI services.The Microsoft Service Trust Portal (STP) is a centralized resource for accessing security, compliance, and privacy documentation related to Microsoft cloud services.
11/09/2025
What are Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Models? Top Open-Source OCR Models
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of turning images that contain text—such as scanned pages, receipts, or photographs—into machine-readable text.What began as brittle rule-based systems has evolved into a rich ecosystem of neural architectures and vision-language models capable of reading complex, multi-lingual, and handwritten documents.The post What are Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Models?
11/09/2025
AI at Work: How Teams and AI are Transforming Collaboration and Communications in the Workplace
A strategic overview of emerging market trends and customer insightsMahendra Sekaran, CVP Microsoft 365 – Intelligent CommunicationsPete Daderko is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Microsoft, where he leads marketing for the portfolio of collaborative applications including Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Planner, and Viva Engage.
11/09/2025
Intune AI Agent: Instant Threat Defense, Invisible Protection
Microsoft Intune’s integration with Security Copilot agents addresses this need.This blog introduces the Vulnerability Remediation Agent, an AI-based solution for managing endpoint security.Vulnerability Remediation Agent in Microsoft Intune are AI-driven tools developed to support security teams in endpoint management and protection.
11/09/2025
The Roadmap for Mastering AI-Assisted Coding in 2025
AI-assisted coding was something virtually nobody could even imagine a few years back, but to some extent, it has now become part of many developers’ workflows — be it for generating specific code snippets, debugging existing code, or even orchestrating tasks.
11/09/2025
New in Microsoft AppSource: August 20-31, 2025
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem.For this volume, 190 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.Utilizing Azure Cognitive Services, the pilot processes various feedback sources and delivers an AI model, a Microsoft Power BI dashboard, and recommendations for service enhancements.
11/09/2025
OpenAI Adds Full MCP Tool Support in ChatGPT Developer Mode: Enabling Write Actions, Workflow Automation, and Enterprise Integrations
OpenAI has just introduced a major upgrade to ChatGPT’s developer mode by adding full support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools.Until now, MCP integrations inside ChatGPT were limited to search and fetch operations—essentially read-only.With this update, MCP connectors can perform write actions, which means developers can now directly update systems, trigger workflows, and […]
11/09/2025
🚀 Export D365 CE Dataverse Org Data to Cosmos DB via the Office365 Management Activity API
This post demonstrates one method to export Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE) Dataverse organization data using the Office 365 Management Activity API and Azure Functions.Solutions such as Splunk and other enterprise-grade platforms commonly implement integrations based on the Office 365 Management Activity API to ingest tenant-wide audit data.This solution provides a robust, extensible pattern for exporting Dynamics 365 CE Dataverse org data to Cosmos DB using the Office 365 Management Activity API.
11/09/2025
Disallowing changing Azure SQL database connection policy using Azure policy
In this blog article, we will cover how we can use customer Azure policy to prevent users from changing the Azure SQL database connections policy.Tutorial: Create a custom policy definition - Azure Policy |Also this is another blog article using the same method if you want to force a specific number of days for your Azure SQL database backup retention period: Azure custom policy to prevent backup retention period to be below X number - Azure SQL |
11/09/2025
Meet mmBERT: An Encoder-only Language Model Pretrained on 3T Tokens of Multilingual Text in over 1800 Languages and 2–4× Faster than Previous Models
Why was a new multilingual encoder needed?XLM-RoBERTa (XLM-R) has dominated multilingual NLP for more than 5 years, an unusually long reign in AI research.While encoder-only models like BERT and RoBERTa were central to early progress, most research energy shifted toward decoder-based generative models.
11/09/2025
App Assure backs Microsoft’s Sentinel promise
In today's evolving cyber-threat landscape, enterprises need the most up-to-date tools for detection, investigation, and response.Cloud-native, AI-driven solutions like Microsoft's Sentinel provide businesses with faster implementation, greater integration and automation capabilities, and intelligent event correlation. But when moving from on-prem to the cloud, or from one SIEM to another, migrating can seem risky and complex for Security Operations Centers (SOCs) that have spent years investing in customized solutions. One challenge businesses face is how to port over third-party connectors, especially ones processing large data volumes, which can reach terabytes per day. For customers with such needs, Microsoft has built the Codeless Connector Framework (CCF) in Microsoft Sentinel.Read the full announcement here: App Assure’s promise: Migrate to Sentinel with confidence
10/09/2025
Building Advanced MCP (Model Context Protocol) Agents with Multi-Agent Coordination, Context Awareness, and Gemini Integration
In this tutorial, we are walking through the process of building an advanced MCP (Model Context Protocol) Agent that runs smoothly inside Jupyter or Google Colab.We are designing the system with real-world practicality in mind, focusing on multi-agent coordination, context awareness, memory management, and dynamic tool usage.The post Building Advanced MCP (Model Context Protocol) Agents with Multi-Agent Coordination, Context Awareness, and Gemini Integration appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/09/2025
App Assure ensures a smooth transition to Nested App Authentication in Outlook
Microsoft is taking steps to champion security by replacing traditional Exchange Online tokens with Nested App Authentication (NAA).Thanks to building on top of Microsoft Entra ID, NAA supports modern authentication protocols and zero-trust policies while providing a streamlined single sign-on experience. Read the full announcement here: App Assure puts Security first for Microsoft Outlook Customers
10/09/2025
Deploying GPT-OSS as Azure ML Online Endpoint
In this post, we’ll walk through how to deploy GPT-OSS using Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) Online Endpoint on a managed compute (NV-A10 & NC-H100) —leveraging a streamlined, script-driven approach.Azure ML online endpoints provide a fully managed, scalable, and secure way to serve models like GPT-OSS.With built-in autoscaling, authentication, monitoring, and seamless REST API integration, they’re ideal for deploying large models on managed compute with minimal operational overhead.
10/09/2025
Opera builds Arm-optimized browser with assistance from App Assure
Today, I want to highlight one of our many successful engagements: the new Opera Browser for Arm-based Windows devices.In May, an Arm-optimized version of Opera for Windows was made available on the developer stream of the browser.Engineering assistance from the Microsoft App Assure team played a key role in this effort.
10/09/2025
NVIDIA AI Releases Universal Deep Research (UDR): A Prototype Framework for Scalable and Auditable Deep Research Agents
Deep Research Tools (DRTs) like Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity, OpenAI’s Deep Research, and Grok DeepSearch rely on rigid workflows bound to a fixed LLM.While effective, they impose strict limitations: users cannot define custom strategies, swap models, or enforce domain-specific protocols.NVIDIA’s analysis identifies three core problems: […]
10/09/2025
Accelerating NordVPN’s Arm Optimization with Microsoft App Assure
Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built.With powerful new system architecture designed to deliver best-in-class performance, all–day battery life and the ability to run the most advanced AI models on device, Copilot+ PCs help users to be more productive, creative and to communicate more effectively.Read the full announcement here: Microsoft App Assure helps Nord Security build for Windows on Arm
10/09/2025
RSAC 2025: Announcement of New Microsoft Sentinel Connectors
Microsoft Sentinel is a leading cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) solution that helps organizations confidently detect, investigate and respond to threats across their multi-cloud, multiplatform environments. Microsoft Sentinel offers seamless integration of data from both Microsoft and third-party sources for a comprehensive view across the entire digital environment. We are very pleased to share the latest Microsoft Sentinel integrations from our valued Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners that allow you to seamlessly connect your existing security solutions with Microsoft Sentinel and benefit from robust analytics and automation capabilities to strengthen your defenses against evolving cyber threats.Read the full announcement here: RSAC 2025 new Microsoft Sentinel connectors announcement
10/09/2025
Ignite 2024: Announcement of New Microsoft Sentinel Connectors
Microsoft Sentinel continues to be a leading cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) solution, empowering organizations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats across their digital ecosystem at scale. Microsoft Sentinel offers robust out of the box (OOTB) content, allowing seamless connections with a wide array of data sources from both Microsoft and third-party providers.This enables comprehensive collection and analysis of security signals across multicloud, multiplatform environments, enhancing your overall security posture. In this Ignite 2024 blog post, we are thrilled to present the latest integrations contributed by our esteemed Partners.
10/09/2025
App Assure promise expands to Copilot for Microsoft 365
Copilot iterates fast and relies on the latest updates and integration throughout the Microsoft product suite, so devices need to be on a monthly update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps (Current Channel or Monthly Enterprise Channel).The vast majority—over 75 percent—are currently running on the Monthly Update Channel or Current Channel.Read the full announcement here: Microsoft App Assure supports Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers moving to monthly updates
10/09/2025
o4-mini Reinforcement Fine-tuning (RFT) Now Generally Available on Azure AI Foundry
Today, we are happy to promote RFT with o4-mini to General Availability on Azure AI Foundry.We have also introduced Custom Python Code as a grader which can be included as part of the finetuning job on both UI and SDK for predictable tasks.In this demo video, Liam Cavanaugh, Data & AI Specialist, dives into the applications for RFT with o4-mini.
10/09/2025
Turn compassion into action: Your guide to Hunger Action Month with Microsoft Copilot
This September, Hunger Action Month arrives at a time when food insecurity in the United States has reached its highest level in over a decade.According to Feeding America’s latest data, more than 47 million people, including 14 million children, are facing hunger in 2025.The USDA reports that 13.5% of U.S. households experienced food insecurity in 2023, with nearly 18 million households affected.
10/09/2025
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!
10/09/2025
Support tip: Upcoming Microsoft Intune network changes
Starting on or shortly after December 2, 2025, Intune will also use Azure Front Door IP addresses to improve security and simplify firewall management.As part of Microsoft’s ongoing Secure Future Initiative (SFI), starting on or shortly after December 2, 2025, the network service endpoints for Microsoft Intune will also use Azure Front Door IP addresses.If you have configured an outbound traffic policy for Intune IP address ranges or Azure service tags for your firewalls, routers, proxy servers, client-based firewalls, VPN or network security groups, you will need to update them to include the new Azure Front Door ranges with the “AzureFrontDoor.MicrosoftSecurity” tag.
10/09/2025
Model Mondays S2E12: Models & Observability
GPT Real Time (GA):Azure AI Foundry now offers GPT Real Time (GA)—lifelike voices, improved instruction following, audio fidelity, and function calling, with support for image context and lower pricing.Azure AI Foundry Agents Learning Plan:Build agents with autonomous goal pursuit, memory, collaboration, and deep fine-tuning (SFT, RFT, DPO) - on Azure AI Foundry.CalcLM Agent Grid (Azure AI Foundry Labs):Project CalcLM: Agent Grid is a prototype and open-source experiment that illustrates how agents might live in a grid-like surface (like Excel).
10/09/2025
Transforming Teams Troubleshooting: Secure Remote Log Collection
We’re thrilled to introduce a game-changer: Remote Log Collection for Microsoft Teams.This new feature is designed with both admins and end users in mind, cutting out the unnecessary hassle from troubleshooting.Instead of waiting on a user to gather logs, an IT pro can initiate the collection directly from the Teams Admin Center.
10/09/2025
Microsoft Teams Hacks You Didn’t Know You Needed
The Open in new window feature in Microsoft Teams lets you seamlessly manage chats, meetings, apps, and channel conversations—without losing your place.By tapping into these lesser-known features and shortcuts, you can transform the way you collaborate, communicate, and manage your day-to-day tasks.From slash commands to immersive reading and app integrations, these hacks are designed to help you reclaim your time and sharpen your focus.
10/09/2025
Elevating Trust in Data through Data Quality in the AI Era
Elevating data quality means going beyond merely identifying issues—it's about equipping data stewards, analysts, and engineers with the right tools to proactively improve trust, consistency, and readiness of data for AI, analytics, and operations.Research shows that 75% of companies do not have a formal data quality program.Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog empowers governance domain owners and data stewards to assess and manage data quality across the ecosystem, driving informed and targeted improvements.
10/09/2025
Cross-region Disaster Recovery for Windows 365 Frontline (dedicated mode)
Windows 365 Frontline supports shift-based employees and contractors in critical industries such as healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and large customer support centers where downtime is not an option and disaster recovery is essential.This Windows 365 add-on feature creates “snapshots” of Cloud PCs in customer-defined, geographically distant locations.Cross-region Disaster Recovery was first introduced for Windows 365 Enterprise, and now Windows 365 Frontline users with dedicated Cloud PCs have the same rapid failover option.
10/09/2025
General Availability: Automatic Identity Management (AIM) for Entra ID on Azure Databricks
Today, we are excited to announce that Automatic Identity management (AIM) for Entra ID on Azure Databricks is generally available.Users, groups, and service principals from Microsoft Entra ID are automatically available within Azure Databricks, including support for nested groups and dashboards.You can share AI/BI dashboards with any user, service principal, or group in Microsoft Entra ID immediately as these users are automatically added to the Azure Databricks account upon login.
10/09/2025
Supercharge SharePoint Content Creation with Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot in SharePoint Online is transforming how organizations create and manage content.With AI-powered tools built directly into the SharePoint experience, users can now generate entire pages or add new sections using natural language prompts—dramatically reducing the time and effort required to deliver high-quality content.Copilot in SharePoint leverages generative AI and Microsoft Graph to help users create engaging, professional pages quickly.
10/09/2025
Empowerment Unlocked: Key Conditions for Thriving Teams
In the second blog of Microsoft People Science team’s People Success Series, we shared the importance of employee trust in leadership.In 2023, our research on the PS Elements found 9 critical needs associated with Empowerment, such as Decision Transparency, Risk-Taking, and Work Ownership.Our research found that employees who have job empowerment decision making authority are 2.8 times less likely to leave than those who don’t2.
10/09/2025
10 Common Misconceptions About Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly integrated into our daily workflows.
10/09/2025
How to: Ingest Splunk alert data to Microsoft Sentinel SIEM
Send Splunk alerts to Sentinel SIEMFrom Microsoft perspective, organizations can take advantage of Logs Ingestion API, which allows for any application that can make a REST API call to send data to Sentinel SIEM.Once the webhook is configured on Splunk side, any time the alert is raised it will trigger the webhook, which will initiate the Logic App resource on Azure side responsible for parsing the data and sending that data through Logs Ingestion API to the destination table in Sentinel SIEM.
10/09/2025
Azure Application Gateway protection against CVE-2025-8671 (MadeYouReset)
A new HTTP/2 vulnerability, CVE-2025-8671 (MadeYouReset), was recently disclosed on August 13, 2025.This attack leverages carefully crafted protocol frames to force servers into repeatedly resetting streams on a single connection, which can lead to high resource consumption and denial of service (DoS) in extreme cases.MadeYouReset and Rapid Reset (CVE-2023-44487) are two similar attack patterns exploiting HTTP/2 steam resets feature leading to resource exhaustion.
10/09/2025
Baidu Releases ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking: A Compact MoE Model for Deep Reasoning
Baidu AI Research team has just released ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking, a new reasoning-focused large language model designed around efficiency, long-context reasoning, and tool integration.Being part of the ERNIE-4.5 family, this model is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 21B total parameters but only 3B active parameters per token, making it computationally efficient while maintaining competitive reasoning capability.The post Baidu Releases ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking: A Compact MoE Model for Deep Reasoning appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/09/2025
MCP Team Launches the Preview Version of the ‘MCP Registry’: A Federated Discovery Layer for Enterprise AI
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) team has released the preview version of the MCP Registry, a system that could be the final puzzle piece for making enterprise AI truly production-ready.More than just a catalog, the MCP Registry introduces a federated architecture for discovering MCP servers—public or private—that mirrors how the internet itself solved addressability […]The post MCP Team Launches the Preview Version of the ‘MCP Registry’: A Federated Discovery Layer for Enterprise AI appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/09/2025
Building a Speech Enhancement and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Pipeline in Python Using SpeechBrain
In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain.We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world scenarios, and then applying SpeechBrain’s MetricGAN+ model to enhance the audio.Once the audio is denoised, we run automatic speech recognition with a language model–rescored […]
10/09/2025
Upcoming September 2025 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call
Join our next community call on September 23, 2025, to learn more about how to leverage Viva Engage for Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption.Once you register, you will receive an email confirmation and calendar invite with the event join link.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.
10/09/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU20
The Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU20 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2022 RTM CUs, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
09/09/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2019 RTM, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
09/09/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU32
The Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU32 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2019 RTM CUs, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
09/09/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2016 SP3, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
09/09/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack
The Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
09/09/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2022 RTM, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
09/09/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2017 RTM, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
09/09/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM CU31
The Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM CU31 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2017 RTM CUs, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
09/09/2025
🎉 Excel Turns 40! Join Our Reddit AMA 🎉
We’re the Microsoft Excel team, and we’re celebrating a huge milestone this year— Excel is turning 40!From the humble beginnings of spreadsheets to today’s powerhouse features like PivotTables, Power Query, XLOOKUP, LET & LAMBDA, Python, and Copilot, Excel has evolved in ways we couldn’t have imagined—thanks to YOU, our amazing community.To celebrate, we’re hosting a Reddit AMA on September 30, 2025, at 10 AM PT.
09/09/2025
Support tip: Troubleshoot device cap reached when enrolling devices into Microsoft Intune
When Microsoft Entra or Intune device limits are reached, users will encounter an error when enrolling their device into Intune. While it can be difficult to understand the reason for the failure from the error message, this blog will explain the differences between Microsoft Entra device registration limit and the Intune device enrollment limit, along with the steps to resolve these issues.Similar to the Intune device limit reached, to resolve this issue either increase the device limit in Microsoft Entra for Microsoft Entra registration or remove any stale devices associated with the user in the Microsoft Entra admin center.The Microsoft Entra device limit reached error will also occur when changing the primary user in Intune for Windows Autopilot Microsoft Entra hybrid joined devices).
09/09/2025
MBZUAI Researchers Release K2 Think: A 32B Open-Source System for Advanced AI Reasoning and Outperforms 20x Larger Reasoning Models
A team of researchers from MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models and G42 released K2 Think, is a 32B-parameter open reasoning system for advanced AI reasoning.It pairs long chain-of-thought supervised fine-tuning with reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards, agentic planning, test-time scaling, and inference optimizations (speculative decoding + wafer-scale hardware).The result is frontier-level math performance […]
09/09/2025
Partner Case Study | Covenant
With a suite of Microsoft technology and an agile approach, Covenant helped the Illinois Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund (IMSIF) connect their data, modernize their operations, and future-proof their mission.For decades, the Illinois Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund (IMSIF) has been helping homeowners and businesses manage this risk by making sure they have access to financial resources when the ground literally shifts beneath their feet.A custom legacy system and siloed data
09/09/2025
Broadcom VMware Licensing Changes: What Azure VMware Solution Partners Need to Know
Broadcom announced a change to their VMware licensing policies that will impact Microsoft partners and Azure VMware Solution customers. These changes require customers to bring their own portable VCF subscriptions when using any hyperscaler platform.Azure VMware Solution (AVS) already supports Broadcom’s model with the AVS VCF BYOL option which enables customers to use AVS with their own VCF subscriptions, and Azure will continue being the best cloud for customers to run their VMWare environments. AVS VCF BYOL option is priced lower than AVS with VCF subscriptions included.
09/09/2025
Simplifying file share management and control for Azure Files
Azure Files makes it easy to run your file shares in the cloud without the overhead of on-premises file servers or NAS devices.To simplify this experience, we're excited to announce the preview of a new file share-centric management model for Azure Files.In preview, you can create up to 1,000 file shares per subscription per region.
09/09/2025
Announcing the release of SSMS 22 Preview 1
The SSMS team is excited to share the first preview of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22!Full details of all features and fixes are available in our release notes, with known issues documented here.An important note: the SSIS and GitHub Copilot components are not present in SSMS 22 Preview 1.
09/09/2025
🎉 Azure Logic Apps: Ushering in the Era of Multi-Agentic Business Process Automation
We're excited to announce enhancements that make Azure Logic Apps the multiagentic business process automation platform that empowers you to build intelligent, collaborative automation solutions.The key highlights of this release includes support for Agent loop in any workflow - new or existing, Python code interpreter, support for Foundry Agent Service in Agent loop, rich Conversational capabilities in our agentic workflows, and multiagent patterns in workflows.Along with these new features, we are also introducing Azure Logic Apps Labs, your hub for AI labs, workshops, and tutorials.
09/09/2025
📢Announcement! Python Code Interpreter in Logic Apps is now in Public Preview
Introducing Python Code Interpreter in Logic Apps Agent LoopThis capability enables Logic Apps developers to use Python Code Interpreter in their workflows and also as a tool in Agent loop.The action to execute Python code is powered by Azure Container Apps (ACA)session pool.
09/09/2025
What’s new in SSMS 21.5.14
We’re excited to share that SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21.5.14 is now available!Modify your installation of SSMS 21.5.14 in the Visual Studio InstallerThis release is chock-full of bug fixes, nearly all of them coming from the SSMS Developer Community site.
09/09/2025
Build expertise, earn recognition, and drive transformation with Microsoft skilling
We have designed the Partner Skilling Hub as a central portal where you can build new capabilities, accelerate organizational growth, and learn how to set your solutions apart and create meaningful customer outcomes.With advanced search and filters by category, solution area, and skill level, you can quickly find live events, self-paced courses, and training opportunities tailored to your needs. Below are just some of the skilling resources available to you through this new portal so you can spend less time searching and more time innovating.
09/09/2025
Zero Trust for Software Development Companies: what “good” looks like in practice
Microsoft is tracking a sharp rise in daily attacks and password-spray attempts, which is exactly why software development companies need a Zero Trust foundation that assumes breach and limits blast radius by default.If your multi-tenant SaaS lives on Microsoft Entra ID, treat the app’s home tenant like production infrastructure, not a convenience sandbox.Create a dedicated “app tenant” that is locked down, automated, and free of day-to-day human use.
09/09/2025
Reimagining Telco with Microsoft: AI, TM Forum ODA, and Developer Innovation
At the heart of this transformation is TM Forum Innovate Americas 2025, a flagship event bringing together global leaders to reimagine the future of connectivity.At TM Forum Innovate Americas 2025, Microsoft is not just showcasing technology—it’s sharing a bold vision for the future of telecom.T-Mobile and Microsoft are spotlighting a transformative approach to enterprise AI: Connected Intelligence.
09/09/2025
How Microsoft 365 Copilot builds customer trust with responsible AI
ISO 42001 is the first certifiable and auditable standard for AI risk management.According to EY’s Responsible AI Pulse Survey (June 2025), while 72% of executives report integrating AI across enterprise initiatives, only one-third have implemented governance controls.The result: Microsoft 365 Copilot achieved ISO 42001 certification in March 2025, becoming one of the few AI solutions globally to do so.
09/09/2025
🚀 Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Support for JBoss EAP on Azure App Service
We’re excited to announce that Azure App Service now supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), enabling enterprise customers to deploy Java workloads with greater flexibility and cost efficiency.BYOL allows customers with existing Red Hat subscriptions to apply those licenses directly to their JBoss EAP deployments on Azure App Service.BYOL support for JBoss EAP on Azure App Service is a game-changer for enterprise Java customers.
09/09/2025
Fix spelling and grammar faster with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word for the web
I’m excited to share a one-click solution for fixing all spelling and grammar errors in a document at once.Fix spelling and grammar faster with Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word for the webMicrosoft 365 Copilot in Word for the web can now apply all spelling and grammar corrections simultaneously.
09/09/2025
Empowering Learners for the Age of AI: New Information Literacy Features Coming to Search Progress
Information literacy skills like verifying sources, understanding context, and thinking critically are foundational for responsible and effective navigation of online information. These skills become even more critical as AI becomes an integral part of learning and daily life -- students need more than just access to information, they need to know how to evaluate it. By strengthening these skills, we help students become thoughtful, independent researchers, and savvy digital citizens. Launching in preview in the coming months, the enhanced Search Progress features will allow educators to scaffold the research process (and perhaps pick up some new skills themselves), breaking down complex information evaluation into core skills such as: As global initiatives like the PISA 2029 Media and Artificial Intelligence Literacy (MAIL) assessment start to take shape, schools will be expected to demonstrate that students have had meaningful opportunities to learn about and engage critically with digital content.
09/09/2025
Microsoft Sentinel’s AI-driven UEBA ushers in the next era of behavioral analytics
Microsoft Sentinel User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) brings the power of AI to automatically surface anomalous behaviors, helping analysts cut through the noise, save time, and focus on what truly matters.Microsoft Sentinel UEBA has already helped SOCs uncover insider threats, detect compromised accounts, and reveal subtle attack signals that traditional rule-based methods often miss.Today, we’re excited to announce a major expansion: Sentinel UEBA now supports six new data sources including Microsoft first- and third-party platforms like Azure, AWS, GCP, and Okta, bringing deeper visibility, broader context, and more powerful anomaly detection tailored to your environment.
09/09/2025
A Quick Guide to Benchmarking AI models on Azure: Llama 405B and 70B with MLPerf Inference v5.1
For the MLPerf Inference v5.1 submission, Azure shared performance results on the new ND GB200 v6 virtual machines.A single ND GB200 v6 VM on Azure is powered by two NVIDIA Grace CPUs and four NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs.This document highlights Azure’s MLPerf Inference v5.1 results and outlines the steps to run these benchmarks on Azure.
09/09/2025
Enforce or Audit Policy Inheritance in API Management
We’re excited to announce a new Azure Policy definition that lets you enforce or audit policy inheritance in Azure API Management.With this capability, platform and governance teams can ensure that API Management policies are always inherited across all policy scopes — operations, APIs, products, and workspaces — strengthening consistency, compliance, and security across your API estate.With the new Azure Policy definition, you can automatically ensure that <base /> is located at the start of each API Management policy section — <inbound>, <outbound>, <backend>, and <on-error> — across policies configured on operations, APIs, products, and workspaces.
09/09/2025
Multi-Agent Systems: The Next Frontier in AI-Driven Cyber Defense
The increasing sophistication of cyber threats calls for a systemic change in the way we defend ourselves against them.
09/09/2025
Security Review for Microsoft Edge version 140
We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 140 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.
09/09/2025
Supercharge Your TM Forum Open API Development with GitHub Copilot
Developing applications that implement TM Forum (TMF) Open APIs can be greatly accelerated with the help of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based coding assistant.In this blog post, we’ll walk through how to set up a project with GitHub Copilot to write TMF Open API-based applications, including prerequisites, configuration steps, an example workflow for building an API, best practices, and additional tips.Once you have your endpoints coded with Copilot’s help, it’s crucial to test them against the TMF specification to ensure correctness.
09/09/2025
Announcing preview of new Azure Dasv7, Easv7, Fasv7-series VMs based on AMD EPYC™ ‘Turin’ processor
Today, Microsoft is announcing preview of the new Azure AMD-based Virtual Machines (VMs), powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Turin) processors.The preview includes general purpose (Dasv7 & Dalsv7 series), memory-optimized (Easv7 series) and compute-optimized (Fasv7, Falsv7, Famsv7 series) VMs, available with and without local disks.These VMs are in preview in the following Azure regions: East US 2, North Europe, and West US 3.
09/09/2025
ROC AUC vs Precision-Recall for Imbalanced Data
When building machine learning models to classify imbalanced data — i.
09/09/2025
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3-ASR: A New Speech Recognition Model Built Upon Qwen3-Omni Achieving Robust Speech Recogition Performance
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team unveiled Qwen3-ASR Flash, an all-in-one automatic speech recognition (ASR) model (available as API service) built upon the strong intelligence of Qwen3-Omni that simplifies multilingual, noisy, and domain-specific transcription without juggling multiple systems.Key Capabilities Use cases span edtech platforms (lecture capture, multilingual tutoring), media (subtitling, voice-over), and customer service (multilingual IVR […]The post Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3-ASR: A New Speech Recognition Model Built Upon Qwen3-Omni Achieving Robust Speech Recogition Performance appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/09/2025
Top 7 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers for Vibe Coding
Modern software development is shifting from static workflows to dynamic, agent-driven coding experiences.At the center of this transition is the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard for connecting AI agents to external tools, data, and services.MCP provides a structured way for large language models (LLMs) to request, consume, and persist context.
09/09/2025
ATLAS: Your AI Tutoring Agent For Personalised Learning
To overcome these challenges, I developed ATLAS, an agentic Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) designed to bring together the adaptability of human educators and the availability of LLMs.In this blog post, I’m excited to introduce ATLAS, a Python system built using Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, and Azure Cloud Services.To address this, I built SAILED (Student-Agent Interactive Learning Evaluation through Dialogue), a scalable framework that simulates tutoring sessions between ATLAS and virtual students.
09/09/2025
Building Agentic Workflows with n8n and Azure Container Apps
On Azure, combining n8n with Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Container Apps (ACA) makes it easier than ever to run intelligent automations at any scale.Managed scale: Use Azure Container Apps to deploy n8n in a fully managed, container-native environment with scaling, networking, and security built in.Three ways to deploy n8n with Azure Container Apps
09/09/2025
Building Enterprise Voice-Enabled AI Agents with Azure Voice Live API
The sample application covered in this post demonstrates two approaches in an end-to-end solution that includes product search, order management, automated shipment creation, intelligent analytics, and comprehensive business intelligence through Microsoft Fabric integration.Part 3 - demonstration of the Microsoft Fabric Integration, Data Agents, Copilot in Fabric and Power BI for insights and analysis - hereThe Direct Model Integration provides ultra-low latency for real-time applications, while the Azure AI Foundry Agent Integration offers enterprise-grade governance and autonomous operation.
09/09/2025
ParaThinker: Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute with Native Parallel Thinking to Overcome Tunnel Vision in Sequential Reasoning
Test-time compute scaling in LLMs has traditionally relied on extending single reasoning paths.While this approach improves reasoning for a limited range, performance plateaus quickly.The post ParaThinker: Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute with Native Parallel Thinking to Overcome Tunnel Vision in Sequential Reasoning appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/09/2025
How to Build a Complete Multi-Domain AI Web Agent Using Notte and Gemini
In this tutorial, we demonstrate a complete, advanced implementation of the Notte AI Agent, integrating the Gemini API to power reasoning and automation.By combining Notte’s browser automation capabilities with structured outputs through Pydantic models, it showcases how an AI web agent can research products, monitor social media, analyze markets, scan job opportunities, and more.The post How to Build a Complete Multi-Domain AI Web Agent Using Notte and Gemini appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/09/2025
Windows 365 Link – Deployment Planning, Setup and Enrollment
The Link device is a ‘last mile’ endpoint device; there are pre-requisites that need to be in place in Intune, Entra and Windows 365 for both deployment of Link, as well as on-going use of Link to access Cloud PCs. Manage firmware settings for Windows 365 Link devices. |If you can't tell, I think the Link is a great device that continues to expand the Windows 365 solution. I hope these details help you as you try them out in your environment. Drop a note into the comments and share how your Windows 365 journey is going.
09/09/2025
Announcing General Availability of Azure D192 Sizes in the Azure Dsv6 and Ddsv6-series VM Families
We’re excited to announce the addition of the D192 size to the Azure Dsv6 and Ddsv6-series Virtual Machines families, powered by the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor.These new VM sizes offer 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB of RAM, making them ideal for general-purpose workloads such as enterprise-grade applications like SAP, SQL, in-memory analytics platforms, and large relational databases.The sizes are now available on Azure Portal in available regions.
08/09/2025
Designing AI Workloads with the Azure Well-Architected Framework
What Is the Azure Well-Architected Framework?The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding principles that help cloud architects build high-quality solutions on Azure.See the episode of the Azure Essentials Show, as it serves as a valuable resource for anyone involved in building AI solutions on Azure.
08/09/2025
Windows 365 Link – Deployment Planning, Setup and Enrollment
The Link device is a ‘last mile’ endpoint device; there are pre-requisites that need to be in place in Intune, Entra and Windows 365 for both deployment of Link, as well as on-going use of Link to access Cloud PCs. “How do I create an Assignment Filter for Link in Intune?”If you can't tell, I think the Link is a great device that continues to expand the Windows 365 solution. I hope these details help you as you try them out in your environment. Drop a note into the comments and share how your Windows 365 journey is going.
08/09/2025
Introducing formula completion - A new way to write formulas in Excel using Copilot
Formula completion in Excel is a new Copilot feature that is designed to solve these challenges.When you type “=” in a cell, Excel analyzes the context of your workbook and suggests a formula completion suggestion, using the context of your worksheet - headers, nearby cells, formulas and tables.Tips for getting the best formula completion suggestion
08/09/2025
Introducing Logic Apps MCP servers (Public Preview)
Using Logic Apps (Standard) as MCP servers transforms the way organizations build and manage agents by turning connectors into modular, reusable MCP tools.This approach allows each connector—whether it's for data access, messaging, or workflow orchestration—to act as a specialized capability within the MCP framework.Registering Logic Apps connectors as MCP servers using Azure API Center
08/09/2025
Logic Apps - MCP Demos
We recently announced the ability to create MCP servers using Logic Apps connectors.In this post we are going to share some demo videos that will help you get started and provide you with some ideas on how you can build MCP servers to address your Agent connectivity needs.In this video, we will leverage Azure API Center to create an MCP Server using Logic Apps connectors.
08/09/2025
Generally Available - High scale mode in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
Container Insights is Azure Monitor’s solution for collecting logs from your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. As the adoption of AKS continues to grow, we are seeing an increasing number of customers with log scaling needs that hit the limits of log collection in Container Insights.Today, we are happy to announce the General Availability of High Scale mode.High scale mode is ideal for customers approaching or above 10,000 logs/sec from a single node.
08/09/2025
Protect your Storage accounts using network security perimeter - now generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability of network security perimeter support for Azure Storage accounts.A network security perimeter allows organizations to define a logical network isolation boundary for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) resources like Azure Storage accounts that are deployed outside your organization’s virtual networks.First, by grouping assets such as Azure Key Vault and Azure Monitor in the same perimeter as your storage accounts, communications between these resources are secured while disabling public access by default, thereby preventing data exfiltration to unauthorized destinations. Then, they centralize the management of network access controls across numerous PaaS resources at scale by providing a single pane of glass.
08/09/2025
GibsonAI Releases Memori: An Open-Source SQL-Native Memory Engine for AI Agents
Similarly, AI Agents become smarter with memory.For example, an agent can remember your past purchases, your budget, […]The post GibsonAI Releases Memori: An Open-Source SQL-Native Memory Engine for AI Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
08/09/2025
GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: Unlocking New Possibilities for Developers and Enterprises
It’s been only 30 days since launch of the GPT-5 models on Azure AI Foundry, and we’re seeing unprecedented uptake in usage both inside Microsoft’s products and across our customers and partners.The following section provides an overview of the core capabilities that set GPT-5 on Azure AI Foundry apart.Azure AI Foundry wraps GPT-5 in a robust security and compliance framework.
08/09/2025
Proactive Security with Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)
This is where the Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework comes into play, offering a structured, cyclical approach to reducing risk across your attack surface.What is Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)?Gartner introduced the coined term CTEM in 2022, and it is a strategic security framework that emphasizes continuous and adaptive risk reduction.
08/09/2025
Released: September 2025 Exchange Server Hotfix Updates
Microsoft has released Hotfix Updates (HUs) that address issues in earlier updates for:The September 2025 HUs do not contain any new Exchange Server security updates but contain a fix for a non-security issue.We wanted to remind you that since Exchange updates are cumulative, September 2025 HUs include support for creation of the dedicated Exchange hybrid app originally announced during April 2025 HU release.
08/09/2025
Protect Copilot Studio AI Agents in Real Time with Microsoft Defender
Building AI agents has never been easier. Platforms like Microsoft Copilot Studio democratize the creation of AI agents and empower non-technical users to build intelligent agents that automate tasks and streamline business processes.Today, we’re excited to take the next step in securing AI agents: Microsoft Defender now delivers real-time protection during agent runtime for AI agents built with Copilot Studio. It automatically stops agents from executing unsafe actions during runtime if suspicious behavior, such as a prompt injection attack attempt, is detected and notifies security teams with a detailed alert in the Defender portal. Defender’s AI agent runtime protection is part of our broader approach to securing Copilot Studio AI agents, as outlined in this blog post.
08/09/2025
KCDC: Where Global Voices Drive Local Innovation
At the heart of the Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC) is a vibrant, inclusive community—one that empowers developers from around the world to connect, collaborate, and innovate.This year, Microsoft MVPs brought their expertise and passion to the event, uplifting others and sparking curiosity across every session.We caught up with a few of them, to hear their reflections on the experience and what makes KCDC such a standout event in the developer world.
08/09/2025
Enforcing SQL PaaS backup retention with Azure Policy
The requirement in this example is to ensure that all Azure SQL Databases have a short-term (PITR) backup retention of at least 9 days.Once the initial remediation scan completes, you can look at the backup retention policies (in Data Management | backups) on the logical server(s) and see that the PITR retention periods have been increased to a minimum of 9 days.Purpose: This is a sample to create the Azure policy defintions, assignment and remediation tasks to enfore organisational policies for minimum short-term (PITR) and weekly long-term (LTR) backup retention.
08/09/2025
Customer review: Board enterprise planning platform increases efficiency and improves data quality
Board – The Enterprise Planning Platform, published on Azure Marketplace, powers end-to-end operational and financial planning to deliver greater forecast accuracy using continuous, AI-powered insights and external economic intelligence.Recognized by Gartner, Board seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Azure to solve enterprise-grade challenges and help multinational businesses such as Takko Holding GmbH.Learn more about Azure Marketplace and find ways to discover the right application for your business needs.
08/09/2025
7 Scikit-learn Tricks for Optimized Cross-Validation
Validating machine learning models requires careful testing on unseen data to ensure robust, unbiased estimates of their performance.
08/09/2025
A New MIT Study Shows Reinforcement Learning Minimizes Catastrophic Forgetting Compared to Supervised Fine-Tuning
What is catastrophic forgetting in foundation models?Fine-tuning on new tasks often introduces catastrophic forgetting—the loss of previously learned capabilities.Why does online reinforcement learning forget less than supervised fine-tuning?
08/09/2025
Zone redundancy is now enabled by default in Azure Container Registry
We’re excited to announce a major resiliency enhancement for Azure Container Registry (ACR): Zone redundancy is now enabled by default for all ACR SKUs in regions that support Availability Zones.With this update, all SKUs, including Basic and Standard, now benefit from zone redundancy in supported regions.However, zone redundancy is enabled for all registries in supported regions.
08/09/2025
How to Create a Bioinformatics AI Agent Using Biopython for DNA and Protein Analysis
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build an advanced yet accessible Bioinformatics AI Agent using Biopython and popular Python libraries, designed to run seamlessly in Google Colab.By combining sequence retrieval, molecular analysis, visualization, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree construction, and motif searches into a single streamlined class, the tutorial provides a hands-on approach […]The post How to Create a Bioinformatics AI Agent Using Biopython for DNA and Protein Analysis appeared first on MarkTechPost.
08/09/2025
Meta Superintelligence Labs Introduces REFRAG: Scaling RAG with 16× Longer Contexts and 31× Faster Decoding
Meta Superintelligence Labs has unveiled REFRAG (REpresentation For RAG), a decoding framework that rethinks retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) efficiency.REFRAG extends LLM context windows by 16× and achieves up to a 30.85× acceleration in time-to-first-token (TTFT) without compromising accuracy.The attention mechanism in large language models scales […]
07/09/2025
Tilde AI Releases TildeOpen LLM: An Open-Source Large Language Model with Over 30 Billion Parameters and Support Most European Languages
Latvian language-tech firm Tilde has released TildeOpen LLM, an open-source foundational large language model (LLM) purpose-built for European languages, with a sharp focus on under-represented and smaller national and regional languages.It’s a strategic leap toward linguistic equity and digital sovereignty within the EU.The post Tilde AI Releases TildeOpen LLM: An Open-Source Large Language Model with Over 30 Billion Parameters and Support Most European Languages appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/09/2025
From Pretraining to Post-Training: Why Language Models Hallucinate and How Evaluation Methods Reinforce the Problem
Large language models (LLMs) very often generate “hallucinations”—confident yet incorrect outputs that appear plausible.Despite improvements in training methods and architectures, hallucinations persist.A new research from OpenAI provides a rigorous explanation: hallucinations stem from statistical properties of supervised versus self-supervised learning, and their persistence is reinforced by misaligned evaluation benchmarks.
07/09/2025
Implementing DeepSpeed for Scalable Transformers: Advanced Training with Gradient Checkpointing and Parallelism
In this advanced DeepSpeed tutorial, we provide a hands-on walkthrough of cutting-edge optimization techniques for training large language models efficiently.By combining ZeRO optimization, mixed-precision training, gradient accumulation, and advanced DeepSpeed configurations, the tutorial demonstrates how to maximize GPU memory utilization, reduce training overhead, and enable scaling of transformer models in resource-constrained environments, such as […]The post Implementing DeepSpeed for Scalable Transformers: Advanced Training with Gradient Checkpointing and Parallelism appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/09/2025
Latest Avatar Updates: 4K Support and Emotion Control Features
You can train a 4K avatar using the self-serve tool in Azure AI Foundry.In Azure AI Foundry, in the Text to Speech avatar tool, users can select the Lisa-casual-standing avatar.Watch the demo video featuring Lisa Casual Standing with emotion control enabled.
06/09/2025
Meet ARGUS: A Scalable AI Framework for Training Large Recommender Transformers to One Billion Parameters
Yandex has introduced ARGUS (AutoRegressive Generative User Sequential modeling), a large-scale transformer-based framework for recommender systems that scales up to one billion parameters.This breakthrough places Yandex among a small group of global technology leaders — alongside Google, Netflix, and Meta — that have successfully overcome the long-standing technical barriers in scaling recommender transformers.The post Meet ARGUS: A Scalable AI Framework for Training Large Recommender Transformers to One Billion Parameters appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/09/2025
Hugging Face Open-Sourced FineVision: A New Multimodal Dataset with 24 Million Samples for Training Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
Hugging Face has just released FineVision, an open multimodal dataset designed to set a new standard for Vision-Language Models (VLMs).With 17.3 million images, 24.3 million samples, 88.9 million question-answer turns, and nearly 10 billion answer tokens, FineVision position itself as one of the largest and structured publicly available VLM training datasets.FineVision aggregates 200+ […]
06/09/2025
Alibaba AI Unveils Qwen3-Max Preview: A Trillion-Parameter Qwen Model with Super Fast Speed and Quality
Alibaba’s Qwen Team unveiled Qwen3-Max-Preview (Instruct), a new flagship large language model with over one trillion parameters—their largest to date.It is accessible through Qwen Chat, Alibaba Cloud API, OpenRouter, and as default in Hugging Face’s AnyCoder tool.This milestone comes at a time when the industry […]
06/09/2025
Google AI Introduces Personal Health Agent (PHA): A Multi-Agent Framework that Enables Personalized Interactions to Address Individual Health Needs
What is a Personal Health Agent?Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across various domains like clinical reasoning, decision support, and consumer health applications.The post Google AI Introduces Personal Health Agent (PHA): A Multi-Agent Framework that Enables Personalized Interactions to Address Individual Health Needs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/09/2025
Capacity Template v2 with Microsoft Fabric
This SharePoint Capacity v2 Template, based on Microsoft Fabric, is now publicly available.How to install the Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Graph Data Connect prerequisites How to import the Power BI template and configure the data source settings
05/09/2025
Understanding and Troubleshooting - Strong Certificate Name Mapping in Active Directory
In recent years, Microsoft has introduced Strong Certificate Name Mapping (Strong Mapping) as a requirement for certificate-based authentication in Active Directory environments.This article provides a deep technical overview, common errors, troubleshooting scenarios, and guidance for enterprise and government deployments.Beginning with the May 2022 update, Microsoft introduced categorizations of strengths for the options for explicit/manual mapping of a certificate to its corresponding Active Directory identity (this applies to both computer and user objects).
05/09/2025
Azure routing preference: A hidden lever for performance vs. cost trade-offs
How you design your cloud architecture affects not just performance but also your burn rate, margins, and ultimately your ability to scale.If your product depends on moving data, whether streaming, analytics, or SaaS APIs, outbound traffic is part of your unit economics.Outbound internet rates vary by region, and they differ sharply between routing options.
05/09/2025
Build Multi-Agent AI Systems on Azure App Service
Introduction: The Evolution of AI-Powered App Service ApplicationsOver the past few months, we've been exploring how to supercharge existing Azure App Service applications with AI capabilities.Today, we're taking the next leap forward by demonstrating how to build sophisticated multi-agent systems that leverage connected agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and OpenAPI tools - all running on Azure App Service's Premium v4 tier with .NET Aspire for enhanced observability and cloud-native development experience.
05/09/2025
Alta Disponibilidade e Resiliência com App Gateway e Múltiplos APIMs: Uma Arquitetura Estratégica
Este artigo explora o design de alta disponibilidade (HA) utilizando a oferta Premium Tier do Azure API Management (APIM) em cenários multi-região ou mesmo intra-região, com foco na aplicação de Availability Zones — uma prática recomendada no pilar de Confiabilidade.O Azure Application Gateway é um balanceador de carga de camada 7 (HTTP/HTTPS) que permite gerenciar o tráfego de aplicações web com inteligência, segurança e escalabilidade.A adoção de uma arquitetura com App Gateway à frente de múltiplos APIMs, integrada com Akamai WAF, Azure Functions, Key Vault e sistemas legados, oferece uma solução robusta, segura e altamente disponível.
05/09/2025
How to Build a Complete End-to-End NLP Pipeline with Gensim: Topic Modeling, Word Embeddings, Semantic Search, and Advanced Text Analysis
In this tutorial, we present a complete end-to-end Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline built with Gensim and supporting libraries, designed to run seamlessly in Google Colab.It integrates multiple core techniques in modern NLP, including preprocessing, topic modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), word embeddings with Word2Vec, TF-IDF-based similarity analysis, and semantic search.The post How to Build a Complete End-to-End NLP Pipeline with Gensim: Topic Modeling, Word Embeddings, Semantic Search, and Advanced Text Analysis appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/09/2025
Azure Front Door Protection against CVE-2025-8671 (MadeYouReset)
A new HTTP/2 vulnerability, CVE-2025-8671 (MadeYouReset), was recently disclosed on August 13, 2025.This attack leverages carefully crafted protocol frames to force servers into repeatedly resetting streams on a single connection, which can lead to high resource consumption and denial of service (DoS) in extreme cases.MadeYouReset and Rapid Reset (CVE-2023-44487) are two similar attack patterns exploiting HTTP/2 steam resets feature leading to resource exhaustion.
05/09/2025
Listen to an audio recap of your meetings in Teams
Listen to an audio recap of your meetings in TeamsThe new audio recap feature in Microsoft Teams is your go-to companion for keeping up with important conversations. Select Recap, then select the day and time of the meeting you’d like to recap.
05/09/2025
What’s next for Copilot in SSMS
The original Copilot in SSMS 21 will continue to be available in SSMS 21 but will not receive any updates. If you’ve been using Copilot in SSMS 21 (which connects to your Azure OpenAI Service), you can continue to use it in SSMS 21.x.However, the original Copilot in SSMS will not be actively developed further, and it will not be available in the next major release.When will GHCP in SSMS be available?
05/09/2025
Coffee and Copilot: AI Skills for Healthcare Professionals
Coffee and Copilot is back!With Copilot Chat now available across Microsoft 365, join us for Coffee and Copilot, a one-hour, expert-led session designed to help you unlock the full potential of your new AI assistant.Tailored for healthcare professionals aligned to Life Sciences and Med Tech, Payors, and Providers, these sessions focus on real-world healthcare use cases and are updated regularly to reflect the latest product developments most useful to these industries.
05/09/2025
Microsoft Project Online is retiring: What you need to know
After more than a decade of supporting project managers and teams around the world, Project Online will officially retire on September 30, 2026.This update is exclusive to Project Online and does not affect Project desktop, Project Server, or Planner (which brings together Project for the web, Planner in Microsoft 365, and To Do).With certain SharePoint Online workflow design tools deprecating in 2026, Microsoft is prioritizing innovation within Planner, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the Project Manager agent, which represents a new generation of work management tools designed to be more intuitive, scalable, and powered by AI.
05/09/2025
AKS - Problemas de desempenho do NGINX Ingress Controller Gerenciado
O NGINX ingress controller gerenciado é um complemento de roteamento que permite direcionar tráfego HTTP e HTTPS para aplicações executando em um cluster Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).Em problemas relacionados à performance, o sistema de roteamento pode ser a causa raiz.Este artigo fornece um guia passo a passo para solucionar problemas de performance do NGINX ingress controller.
05/09/2025
A Gentle Introduction to Batch Normalization
Deep neural networks have drastically evolved over the years, overcoming common challenges that arise when training these complex models.
05/09/2025
Build Custom Engine Agents in AI Foundry for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Develop fast and deploy to Azure with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for VS Code.The Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit extension for VS Code streamlines development and deployment:The Microsoft 365 Agents SDK uses Azure Bot Service to handle channel connectivity between Copilot and your agent endpoint.
05/09/2025
Meet Chatterbox Multilingual: An Open-Source Zero-Shot Text To Speech (TTS) Multilingual Model with Emotion Control and Watermarking
Resemble AI has recently released Chatterbox Multilingual, a production grade open-source Text To Speech (TTS) model designed for zero-shot voice cloning in 23 languages.It is distributed under the MIT license, making it freely available for integration and modification.The system builds on the original Chatterbox framework and adds multilingual capability, expressive controls, and built-in […]
05/09/2025
Biomni-R0: New Agentic LLMs Trained End-to-End with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for Expert-Level Intelligence in Biomedical Research
The Growing Role of AI in Biomedical Research The field of biomedical artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, with increasing demand for agents capable of performing tasks that span genomics, clinical diagnostics, and molecular biology.they are expected to reason through complex biological problems, interpret patient data, and […]The post Biomni-R0: New Agentic LLMs Trained End-to-End with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for Expert-Level Intelligence in Biomedical Research appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/09/2025
Microsoft and PASS Summit are going on tour!
Join us for this two-day event Sep 15 - 16 in Dallas, TX, together with our partners Pure Storage.Pre-Con: Deep-Dive Workshop: Accelerating AI, Performance and Resilience with SQL Server 2025Learn directly from Microsoft and Pure Storage experts how to harness SQL Server’s vector capabilities and walk through real-world demos covering semantic search, change event streaming, and using external tables to manage vector embeddings.
05/09/2025
New Mbv3 Size, Standard_M416bs_v3, General Availability
Today, we're excited to expand the Mbv3 portfolio to better support large-scale, mission-critical database workloads—especially for healthcare organizations operating EHR (Electronic Health Records) database on Azure. We’re pleased to announce the general availability of the new Mbv3 size, Standard_M416bs_v3.This VM size, newly added to the Mbv3 series, Standard_M416bs_v3, offers 416 vCPU which is over 2x the vCPU of the largest launched Mbv3 VM.The Standard_M416bs_v3 offers high remote storage performance with up to 550,000 IOPS and 10 GBps of remote disk storage bandwidth.
05/09/2025
Announcing the Public Preview of the New App Service Quota Self-Service Experience
The updated experience introduces a dedicated App Service Quota blade in the Azure portal, offering a streamlined and intuitive interface to:Set custom quotas tailored to your App Service plan needsIf you choose to create a support ticket, then you will interact with the capacity management team for that region.
04/09/2025
Google AI Releases EmbeddingGemma: A 308M Parameter On-Device Embedding Model with State-of-the-Art MTEB Results
EmbeddingGemma is Google’s new open text embedding model optimized for on-device AI, designed to balance efficiency with state-of-the-art retrieval performance.At just 308 million parameters, EmbeddingGemma is lightweight enough to run on mobile devices and offline environments.Despite its size, it performs competitively with much larger embedding […]
04/09/2025
The Future of AI: Creating a Web Application with Vibe Coding
In this article I am sharing my experience of creating a web application by providing natural language instructions to an agent created with GPT-5 (Preview) in Azure AI Foundry Models, built with Visual Studio Code.In this blog post, I am sharing how easy it was to build a web application using vibe coding to demonstrate the service's capabilities.This final web application was built entirely through vibe coding using the GPT-5 Agent in Visual Studio Code, showcasing how effortlessly advanced service capabilities can be brought to life.
04/09/2025
New Diagnostic: Copilot Agent Functionality in Microsoft Teams.
As Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 continues to evolve, ensuring reliable agent performance within Microsoft Teams is critical to delivering a seamless user experience.To support this, we’re introducing the Copilot Agent Functionality Diagnostic—a powerful tool designed to identify and resolve issues that may prevent Copilot agents from operating in Teams.This includes validating eligibility, confirming service availability, and checking for configuration compliance.
04/09/2025
Google DeepMind Finds a Fundamental Bug in RAG: Embedding Limits Break Retrieval at Scale
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems generally rely on dense embedding models that map queries and documents into fixed-dimensional vector spaces.While this approach has become the default for many AI applications, a recent research from Google DeepMind team explains a fundamental architectural limitation that cannot be solved by larger models or better training alone.The post Google DeepMind Finds a Fundamental Bug in RAG: Embedding Limits Break Retrieval at Scale appeared first on MarkTechPost.
04/09/2025
Partner Blog | Security, growth, and trust: Introducing the FY26 Security solution plays
That’s the challenge we’ve committed to tackling with the Secure Future Initiative (SFI), and it’s why we recently introduced SFI patterns and practices to support partners and customers as they turn their security learnings into action.With over a million customers already using Microsoft Security solutions, there’s a significant opportunity for Microsoft partners like you to further differentiate your business and grow.Our extensive threat intelligence gives us visibility into more than 84 trillion security signals daily, as well as a deeper understanding of the evolving threat landscape and how our solutions can better protect customers.
04/09/2025
Announcing a new Azure AI Translator API (Public Preview)
Seattle—September 4, 2025—Today, we are excited to announce a new Azure AI Translator API which provides you with flexibility to choose general neural machine translation (NMT), or a list of generative AI large language models (LLMs) at a request level.Using generative AI models, the new API offers new capabilities to produce tone translation, gender translation, and adaptive custom translation.Leverage generative AI LLMs to produce gender specific translation.
04/09/2025
Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI
This article provides a summary of and commentary on the recent paper
04/09/2025
10 Python One-Liners Every Machine Learning Practitioner Should Know
Developing machine learning systems entails a well-established lifecycle, consisting of a series of stages from data preparation and preprocessing to modeling, validation, deployment to production, and continuous maintenance.
03/09/2025
3 Ways to Speed Up and Improve Your XGBoost Models
Extreme gradient boosting ( XGBoost ) is one of the most prominent machine learning techniques used not only for experimentation and analysis but also in deployed predictive solutions in industry.
02/09/2025
5 Key Ways LLMs Can Supercharge Your Machine Learning Workflow
Experimenting, fine-tuning, scaling, and more are key aspects that machine learning development workflows thrive on.
29/08/2025
Partner Blog | Cloud & AI Platforms series part 1: Capturing the market opportunity
Across industries, organizations are racing to modernize, unify data, and embrace AI.At the center of this transformation are Microsoft partners, guiding customers through disruption and redefining what’s possible.With more than 150 million developers building on GitHub, 13 million apps running on Azure, and over 70,000 organizations innovating with Azure AI Foundry, the ecosystem is creating new ways to reimagine business processes and deliver AI-powered outcomes.
28/08/2025
What’s New in Azure AI Foundry Fine-tuning: August 2025
The Azure AI Foundry team continues to push the boundaries of model customization with powerful updates to its fine-tuning capabilities.August brings several new features—Pause & Resume, Cross-Region Model Copying, and Reinforcement Fine Tuning (RFT) with Swagger and API Support—designed to give developers and data scientists greater control, flexibility, and efficiency in managing their fine-tuning workflows.We are introducing the Copy Models feature, allowing users to transfer checkpointed models across regions and subscriptions within the same tenant—a significant advancement for teams operating in multi-region environments.
28/08/2025
From the frontlines: Managing common kiosk scenarios in your business
I'm Saurabh Sarkar and I've had the opportunity to collaborate with several customers on effectively managing their Windows kiosk devices to enhance productivity with Microsoft Intune.In this post, we’ll explore how to effectively utilize Intune to enhance the productivity of frontline workers in two example sectors: the airline industry and the food and beverage sector (restaurants).Self-service kiosks in airports and restaurants
28/08/2025
No More Guesswork—Copilot Makes Azure Security Crystal Clear
As organizations migrate workloads to Azure, the need for robust security frameworks and proactive compliance strategies grows. Security Copilot, integrated with Azure, is transforming how technical teams approach these challenges, empowering users to build secure, compliant environments with greater efficiency and confidence.Below, I’ll highlight a range of security topics with sample Copilot prompts that you can use to help create a more secure and compliant environment.While Security Copilot supports secure coding by identifying vulnerabilities like SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and buffer overflows, it is not a direct replacement for traditional code scanning tools, instead, it complements these tools by leveraging telemetry from integrated Microsoft services and applying AI-driven insights to prioritize risks and guide remediation.
28/08/2025
New in Azure Marketplace: August 12-19, 2025
For this volume, 184 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.It uses AI agents for coverage assessment, cost estimation, online search, and report generation.Their Microsoft Copilot service offers a proof of concept with real use cases, testing core capabilities and enabling hands-on experience.
28/08/2025
7 Pandas Tricks for Efficient Data Merging
Data merging is the process of combining data from different sources into a unified dataset.
28/08/2025
Announcing: Setup CD in Azure Logic Apps Standard with Deployment Center
Deployment Center - a built-in feature in Azure Logic Apps Standard - in now available, with built-in support on your VS Code projects, making it easier to deploy Logic Apps from your source control repository.Deployment Center connects your Logic Apps to your favourite source control systems—like GitHub or Azure Repos—and handles code deployments automatically, giving you the following benefits:Once the Deployment Center scripts are generated and pushed to your source control, you can connect your repository to your existing Azure Logic Apps Standard application.
28/08/2025
Australia’s Large Language Model Landscape: Technical Assessment
Key Points Local Model Development: Kangaroo LLM Kangaroo LLM is Australia’s flagship effort to build a sovereign, open-source large language model tailored to Australian English and culture.However, as of August 2025, Kangaroo […]The post Australia’s Large Language Model Landscape: Technical Assessment appeared first on MarkTechPost.
28/08/2025
Unlock the Full Potential of LLMs with POML: The Markup Language for Prompts
Most of the times, it is observed that prompts/system message for large language models (LLMs) can become unstructured and difficult to manage, especially when it is lengthy containing few shot examples.For those who have experienced this challenge, Prompt Orchestration Markup Language (POML) offers a structured solution.Next step is to create the python file that will use POML file to interact with the Language model.
28/08/2025
Nous Research Team Releases Hermes 4: A Family of Open-Weight AI Models with Hybrid Reasoning
Nous Research has released Hermes 4, a family of open-weight models (14B, 70B, and 405B parameter sizes based on Llama 3.1 checkpoints) that achieves frontier-level performance through pure post-training techniques.Hermes 4 introduces hybrid reasoning – models can toggle between standard responses and explicit reasoning using <think>...</think> tags when complex problems require deeper deliberation.
28/08/2025
A Coding Implementation of Quantum State Evolution, Decoherence, and Entanglement Dynamics using QuTiP
In this advanced QuTiP tutorial, we explore the rich dynamics of quantum systems using Python and the QuTiP framework.We’ll begin by preparing fundamental single- and two-qubit states, including Bell pairs, and then move on to implement key quantum operations such as Pauli matrices, Hadamard gates, and CNOT.From there, we’ll simulate Rabi oscillations in […]
28/08/2025
How to Decide Between Random Forests and Gradient Boosting
When working with machine learning on structured data, two algorithms often rise to the top of the shortlist: random forests and gradient boosting .
28/08/2025
Build Your AI Email Agent with Microsoft Copilot Studio
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create an AI agent that can send emails on your behalf.Communication Services: Search for "Communication Services" in the marketplace and create a new resource.If you want branching, remember the HTTP Request action has no built-in success check, you can save the response (e.g., varSendResult), add a Condition that tests varSendResult.ok == true, and on success send a confirmation and End current topic to prevent loops.
27/08/2025
What is Agentic RAG? Use Cases and Top Agentic RAG Tools (2025)
Agentic RAG combines the strengths of traditional RAG—where large language models (LLMs) retrieve and ground outputs in external context—with agentic decision-making and tool use.Unlike static approaches, agentic RAG features AI agents that orchestrate retrieval, generation, query planning, and iterative reasoning.Use Cases and Top Agentic RAG Tools (2025) appeared first on MarkTechPost.
27/08/2025
The Responses API in Azure AI Foundry is now generally available
We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Responses API in Azure AI Foundry, making it easier than ever for developers to build intelligent, tool-using agents with stateful, multi-turn conversations—all in a single API call.Now, with GA, the API is production-ready and supports the full range of popular OpenAI models, including the GPT-5 series and fine-tuned models, along with a rich set of built-in tools to accelerate development.The Responses API is now available in all supported regions and ready for production use.
27/08/2025
Hybrid Logic Apps deployment on Rancher K3s Kubernetes cluster
K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and originally developed by Rancher.This makes K3s a perfect choice for running Azure Logic Apps Standard close to your data sources (e.g., on-prem SQL Server, local file shares) without the heavy infrastructure requirements of a full Kubernetes cluster.There are 5 steps which are followed to setup the Hybrid Logic Apps including infrastructure which is illustrated in the following diagram. Most of these 5 steps are same as discussed in the Hybrid Logic Apps doc except the K3s Setup part Set up your own infrastructure for Standard logic app workflows - Azure Logic Apps |
27/08/2025
Meta AI Introduces DeepConf: First AI Method to Achieve 99.9% on AIME 2025 with Open-Source Models Using GPT-OSS-120B
Large language models (LLMs) have reshaped AI reasoning, with parallel thinking and self-consistency methods often cited as pivotal advances.However, these techniques face a fundamental trade-off: sampling multiple reasoning paths boosts accuracy but at a steep computational cost.A team of researchers from Meta AI and UCSD introduce Deep Think with Confidence (DeepConf), a new […]
27/08/2025
Prevent Accidental Deletion of an Instance in Azure Postgres
Setting Deletion Protection on a new flexible server instanceAzure Resource Manager locks provide a simple but powerful safeguard to prevent accidental deletion of Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server instances.Now that you’ve learned how to apply deletion protection for both new and existing flexible server instances, we recommend reviewing your organization’s governance practices and integrating ARM locks as part of your deployment standards.
27/08/2025
Navigating Azure Certifications with Copilot and Azure Course Blueprints
That’s where Azure Course Blueprints and Copilot come in.Developing a clear roadmap for your Azure certification journey can present several challenges:Combining Copilot with Azure Course Blueprints enables more efficient preparation than using individually.
27/08/2025
Windows 365 is now supported in Korea Central
We are pleased to announce that we have enabled Windows 365 in Korea Central.Customers can now create Cloud PCs with data stored in the Korea Central region.Korea Central can now be selected within provisioning policies when you select the South Korea geography:
27/08/2025
Introducing Surveys Agent, your personal survey expert
I’m excited to introduce Surveys Agent, a brand-new pre-built agent developed by Microsoft, ready to help you with survey creation from start to finish.IMPORTANT: Surveys Agent is now available to commercial users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license as part of the Frontier program which gives customers early access to new Copilot innovations while they’re still in development.Surveys Agent streamlines the entire process into a simple conversational experience, making survey creation as intuitive as having a chat.
27/08/2025
What’s New with Viva Glint Benchmarks?
We’ve streamlined the benchmark generation process and released new global benchmarks for 2025.Because most Viva Glint customers use a common set of core survey questions, Viva Glint can calculate robust benchmarks on a large number of survey items using customer data exclusively.In compliance with Microsoft data security standards, the People Science team has implemented an automated process that enables us to generate and review benchmark suites without accessing or seeing customer data directly.
27/08/2025
Course Title Updates: What You Need to Know
We’re refining how courses and learning paths are titled to improve clarity, discoverability, and learner experience.Clear, action-oriented titles: Start with a present-tense verb + subject.Enhanced metadata: Descriptions now include general skill terms to boost SEO and discoverability.
27/08/2025
New in Microsoft AppSource: August 12-19, 2025
For this volume, 169 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.AdLead: AdLead from Advaiya Solutions is a lead management solution integrated with Microsoft Power Pages and Microsoft Dynamics 365.Global Pty Ltd's Audit Trail for Business Central enables organizations to track, log, and review changes made to critical data within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
27/08/2025
A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Regression
In this article, you will learn: • The fundamental difference between traditional regression, which uses single fixed values for its parameters, and Bayesian regression, which models them as probability distributions.
27/08/2025
The Evolution of AI Protocols: Why Model Context Protocol (MCP) Could Become the New HTTP for AI
Welcome to a new era of AI interoperability, where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) stands ready to do for agents and AI assistants what HTTP did for the web.If you’re building, scaling, or analyzing AI systems, MCP is the open standard you can’t ignore—it provides a universal contract for discovering tools, fetching resources, and […]The post The Evolution of AI Protocols: Why Model Context Protocol (MCP) Could Become the New HTTP for AI appeared first on MarkTechPost.
27/08/2025
Google AI’s New Regression Language Model (RLM) Framework Enables LLMs to Predict Industrial System Performance Directly from Raw Text Data
Google’s new Regression Language Model (RLM) approach enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to predict industrial system performance directly from raw text data, without relying on complex feature engineering or rigid tabular formats.The Challenge of Industrial System Prediction Predicting performance for large-scale industrial systems—like Google’s Borg compute clusters—has traditionally required extensive domain-specific feature engineering and […]The post Google AI’s New Regression Language Model (RLM) Framework Enables LLMs to Predict Industrial System Performance Directly from Raw Text Data appeared first on MarkTechPost.
27/08/2025
A Coding Implementation of an Advanced Tool-Using AI Agent with Semantic Kernel and Gemini
In this tutorial, we build an advanced AI agent using Semantic Kernel combined with Google’s Gemini free model, and we run it seamlessly on Google Colab.We start by wiring Semantic Kernel plugins as tools, like web search, math evaluation, file I/O, and note-taking, and then let Gemini orchestrate them through structured JSON outputs.The post A Coding Implementation of an Advanced Tool-Using AI Agent with Semantic Kernel and Gemini appeared first on MarkTechPost.
27/08/2025
Replication lag metric for Azure SQL DB is now in public preview
Azure SQL Database offers business continuity capabilities to recover quickly from regional disasters. Features such as active geo-replication and failover groups provide continuous replication of the data in your primary database to a secondary database in a different Azure region. In the event of a regional disruption, these features allow you to perform quick disaster recovery to your secondary database to meet your business' recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). RTO for Azure SQL Database is typically less than 60 seconds, but RPO depends on the amount of data changes before the disruptive event that have not been replicated. Consequently, monitoring the replication lag between the primary and secondary databases is critical in ensuring your RPO goals are met.Until now, the main way to measure the replication lag between the primary and secondary databases was with the replication_lag_sec column of the dynamic management view (DMV), sys.dm_geo_replication_link_status from your primary database. With the introduction of the Replication lag metric, you can now monitor lag with respect to RPO in near real time in the Azure portal in addition to using the DMV. Replication lag is a new Azure monitor metric that is emitted at a one-minute frequency and stored up to 93 days. You can monitor the metric by adding Replication lag (preview) from your primary database in the portal as shown below:
27/08/2025
NVIDIA AI Released Jet-Nemotron: 53x Faster Hybrid-Architecture Language Model Series that Translates to a 98% Cost Reduction for Inference at Scale
NVIDIA researchers have shattered the longstanding efficiency hurdle in large language model (LLM) inference, releasing Jet-Nemotron—a family of models (2B and 4B) that delivers up to 53.6× higher generation throughput than leading full-attention LLMs while matching, or even surpassing, their accuracy.Most importantly, this breakthrough isn’t the result of a new pre-training run from scratch, […]The post NVIDIA AI Released Jet-Nemotron: 53x Faster Hybrid-Architecture Language Model Series that Translates to a 98% Cost Reduction for Inference at Scale appeared first on MarkTechPost.
27/08/2025
Inference performance of Llama 3.1 8B using vLLM across various GPUs and CPUs
Following our previous evaluation of Llama 3.1 8B inference performance on Azure’s ND-H100-v5 infrastructure using vLLM, this report broadens the scope to compare inference performance across a range of GPU and CPU platforms.Using the Hugging Face inference benchmarker, we assess not only throughput and latency but also the cost-efficiency of each configuration—an increasingly critical factor for enterprise deployment.As organizations seek scalable and budget-conscious solutions for deploying large language models (LLMs), understanding the trade-offs between compute-bound and memory-bound stages of inference becomes essential.
26/08/2025
Partner Blog | How systems integrators are scaling innovation with Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents
Imagine a workplace where AI agents don’t just support your team, they transform how tasks get done, unlocking new levels of creativity, speed, and impact.According to Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index Annual Report, nearly half of leaders say their companies are already using agents to fully automate workflows or processes across departments and functions.And behind many of them are Microsoft 365 Copilot, agentic AI, and a deep partnership with Microsoft.
26/08/2025
ICYMI: Partner Blog | How systems integrators are scaling innovation with Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents
Imagine a workplace where AI agents don’t just support your team, they transform how tasks get done, unlocking new levels of creativity, speed, and impact.According to Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index Annual Report, nearly half of leaders say their companies are already using agents to fully automate workflows or processes across departments and functions.And behind many of them are Microsoft 365 Copilot, agentic AI, and a deep partnership with Microsoft.
26/08/2025
Recommended Read: Securing and governing autonomous agents
My colleague Igor Sakhnov, CVP of Engineering and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Identity, shares his thoughts on the new risks and responsibilities we're all facing with agents. Starting with the provocative question By 2026, enterprises may have more autonomous agents than human users.Igor explains why agents are a new entity type, not just a minor extension of existing identity or application governance.
26/08/2025
MVP Champ Spotlight- Pierre Thoor
Get familiar with the hunting tables in advanced hunting and the reporting capabilities in MDO.A: We highlight MDO’s business value using the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Overview dashboard, which provides clear, visual metrics, like threats blocked before delivery, items purged post-delivery via ZAP, and any “uncaught” threats.Take the time to understand how the features and settings really work, and share that knowledge with others.
26/08/2025
Staying Ahead of Compliance: Keep Up with Key Insights from our Quarterly Compliance Update
As artificial intelligence (AI) and generative tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot transform how enterprises operate, the stakes for data protection, regulatory alignment, and operational resilience continue to increase.The July 2025 Quarterly Compliance Update – released at the beginning of each quarter – is designed to help CISOs, IT administrators, and compliance leaders stay ahead of emerging risks and regulatory shifts, while maximizing the value of Microsoft’s cloud and AI services.It’s a practical guide for organizations navigating the complexities of compliance in regulated industries.
26/08/2025
Partner Case Study | Siemens
The longstanding partnership between Microsoft and Siemens—a German tech conglomerate that focuses on industrial automation—helps solve a crucial challenge facing consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail companies: fragmented processes across production.Cloud-powered lifecycle management tailored for CPG and retailAt the core of Siemens' ILM is Siemens' Teamcenter X on Azure, a cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) platform.
26/08/2025
Google AI Introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash Image: A New Model that Allows You to Generate and Edit Images by Simply Describing Them
Google AI has just unveiled Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a new generation image model designed to let users generate and edit images simply by describing them—and its true innovation is how it delivers precise, consistent, and high-fidelity edits at impressive speed and scale.What Makes Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Impressive?Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is […]
26/08/2025
Ingesting .CSV log files from Azure Blob Storage into Microsoft Sentinel
To enhance security monitoring, compliance, and threat detection, it is important to bring this log data into a centralized security tool like Microsoft Sentinel.The main goal is to automatically collect and analyze .CSV log files stored in Azure Blob Storage using Sentinel’s advanced analytics and automation capabilities.CSV log files from Azure Blob Storage into Microsoft Sentinel is a powerful way to centralize and automate the organization’s security monitoring.
26/08/2025
Save new files automatically to the cloud in Word for Windows
I’m excited to share an update to Microsoft Word for Windows that automatically saves new documents to the cloud.Save new files automatically to the cloud in Word for WindowsCreate a new document in Word on your Windows device and notice that AutoSave is already toggled on.
26/08/2025
Cutting the wire without cutting the audio quality
Windows 11 and most modern Bluetooth headsets now support improved audio compression and double the sample rate for HFP, which is called “wideband” voice.LE Audio uses improved audio compression and TMAP requires headphones and earbuds to support even higher “super wideband” audio fidelity at a 32kHz sample rate while using voice.Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature in Windows 11 that allows Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio devices to play in high quality stereo while using the microphone, for a drastically improved audio experience in games and calls!
26/08/2025
Connecting an Agent in Copilot Studio to an MCP Server
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standardized framework designed to enable seamless communication between agents and external data or tool sources.This blog provides a step-by-step guide to creating and configuring a custom connector for an MCP server and integrating it with an agent in Copilot Studio.Extend your agent with Model Context Protocol - Microsoft Copilot Studio |
26/08/2025
Performance of Llama 3.1 8B AI Inference using vLLM on ND-H100-v5
The pace of development in large language models (LLMs) has continued to accelerate as the global AI community races toward the goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI).In this paper, we explore the capabilities of the Llama 3.1 8B model as a representative example of a modern, enterprise-ready LLM.We benchmark its inference performance on Azure’s ND-H100 v5 infrastructure using the vLLM engine and present our findings along with recommendations for enterprise deployment.
26/08/2025
Windows Backup for Organizations is now available
This new feature allows your organization to seamlessly back up Windows 10 or Windows 11 settings and effortlessly restore them on a Microsoft Entra joined device.With Windows 10 support ending on October 14, 2025, ease your transition to Windows 11.Note: While Windows Backup for Organizations can easily help you move to Windows 11 with your settings and Microsoft Store apps already in place, there are circumstances that could prevent you from replacing Windows 10 devices before the end of support.
26/08/2025
Reimagining work: Microsoft’s vision for the future of Desktop as a Service
In this landscape, Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is emerging as a strategic enabler, not just a technical solution.Microsoft is at the forefront of reimagining DaaS, extending beyond virtual desktops to deliver a platform for business agility, resilience, and human-centric innovation.Our Leader position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service for three consecutive years, we believe, reflects our commitment to driving this evolution.
26/08/2025
Kick off NFL season right with Microsoft Copilot
If you’re hoping to make the most out of this NFL season, consider using Microsoft Copilot!Get help drafting a winning Fantasy Football teamPlan the perfect tailgate or party
26/08/2025
Introducing the SharePoint Showcase blog series
In Microsoft’s FY25 Q4 earnings, Satya Nadella announced that this year, customers have built over 3 million agents from SharePoint and Copilot Studio - a milestone that reflects the incredible momentum and creativity across customers.Create an agent scoped to your content.Access SharePoint agents directly in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
26/08/2025
Updates to Data Security specialization (formerly Information Protection and Governance)
As of 8/26/2025, the Information Protection and Governance specialization is now updated to the Data Security specialization in response to partner feedback and evolving market conditions.In addition to a new name, the specialization also features updated skilling and performance requirements.The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program has the resources you need to meet these new benchmarks and stand out to customers.
26/08/2025
Microsoft deployment blueprint - Address oversharing concerns for your M365 Copilot deployment
Optimized deployment leverages advanced compliance and automation capabilities available in Microsoft 365 E5.This episode outlines how E5 customers can proactively secure data and enhance Copilot performance.Export top 100 sites and run SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) permission state reports and Purview DSPM for AI assessments to gain visibility into all data at risk of Copilot access (pivot on labels and sensitive information types).
26/08/2025
Automate Your Log Analytics Workflows with AI and Logic Apps
In this post, we’ll demonstrate how to build a simple yet powerful workflow using Azure Logic Apps, Log Analytics queries, and LLMs to automate log analysis, save time, and spot issues faster.While we focus here on an example using Application Insights data with Azure OpenAI, the same approach can be applied to any Log Analytics source - whether raw logs, security events, or custom logs.With Azure Logic Apps, you can create a recurring workflow that automatically runs your Log Analytics queries, sends the summarized results to Azure OpenAI for analysis, and delivers a clear, actionable report straight to your inbox on your preferred schedule.
26/08/2025
10 Useful NumPy One-Liners for Time Series Analysis
Working with time series data often means wrestling with the same patterns over and over: calculating moving averages, detecting spikes, creating features for forecasting models.
26/08/2025
What is MLSecOps(Secure CI/CD for Machine Learning)?: Top MLSecOps Tools (2025)
Machine learning (ML) is transforming industries, powering innovation in domains as varied as financial services, healthcare, autonomous systems, and e-commerce.However, as organizations operationalize ML models at scale, traditional approaches to software delivery—chiefly, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)—have revealed critical gaps when applied to machine learning workflows.The post What is MLSecOps(Secure CI/CD for Machine Learning)?: Top MLSecOps Tools (2025) appeared first on MarkTechPost.
26/08/2025
Your LLM is 5x Slower Than It Should Be. The Reason? Pessimism—and Stanford Researchers Just Showed How to Fix It
In the fast-paced world of AI, large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Llama are powering everything from chatbots to code assistants.But here’s a dirty secret: your LLM inference—the process of generating responses—might be running up to five times slower than necessary.A overly cautious approach to handling uncertainty in output lengths.
26/08/2025
Building a Reliable End-to-End Machine Learning Pipeline Using MLE-Agent and Ollama Locally
We begin this tutorial by showing how we can combine MLE-Agent with Ollama to create a fully local, API-free machine learning workflow.We set up a reproducible environment in Google Colab, generate a small synthetic dataset, and then guide the agent to draft a training script.The post Building a Reliable End-to-End Machine Learning Pipeline Using MLE-Agent and Ollama Locally appeared first on MarkTechPost.
26/08/2025
Microsoft Released VibeVoice-1.5B: An Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model that can Synthesize up to 90 Minutes of Speech with Four Distinct Speakers
Microsoft’s latest open source release, VibeVoice-1.5B, redefines the boundaries of text-to-speech (TTS) technology—delivering expressive, long-form, multi-speaker generated audio that is MIT licensed, scalable, and highly flexible for research use.it’s a framework designed to generate up to 90 minutes of uninterrupted, natural-sounding audio, support simultaneous generation of up […]The post Microsoft Released VibeVoice-1.5B: An Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model that can Synthesize up to 90 Minutes of Speech with Four Distinct Speakers appeared first on MarkTechPost.
25/08/2025
SEA-LION v4: Multimodal Language Modeling for Southeast Asia
AI Singapore (AISG) has released SEA-LION v4, an open-source multimodal language model developed in collaboration with Google and based on the Gemma 3 (27B) architecture.The model is designed to support Southeast Asian languages, including those with limited digital resources, and provides both text and image understanding capabilities.SEA-LION v4 uses a commercially permissive license […]
25/08/2025
Logistic vs SVM vs Random Forest: Which One Wins for Small Datasets?
When you have a small dataset, choosing the right machine learning model can make a big difference.
25/08/2025
5 Scikit-learn Pipeline Tricks to Supercharge Your Workflow
Perhaps one of the most underrated yet powerful features that scikit-learn has to offer, pipelines are a great ally for building effective and modular machine learning workflows.
25/08/2025
How Do GPUs and TPUs Differ in Training Large Transformer Models? Top GPUs and TPUs with Benchmark
Both GPUs and TPUs play crucial roles in accelerating the training of large transformer models, but their core architectures, performance profiles, and ecosystem compatibility lead to significant differences in use case, speed, and flexibility.Architecture and Hardware Fundamentals TPUs are custom ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) engineered by Google, purpose-built for highly efficient matrix operations required […]The post How Do GPUs and TPUs Differ in Training Large Transformer Models?
25/08/2025
Google AI Introduced Guardrailed-AMIE (g-AMIE): A Multi-Agent Approach to Accountability in Conversational Medical AI
Recent advances in large language model (LLM)-powered diagnostic AI agents have yielded systems capable of high-quality clinical dialogue, differential diagnosis, and management planning in simulated settings.Yet, delivering individual diagnoses and treatment recommendations remains strictly regulated: only licensed clinicians can be responsible for critical patient-facing decisions.The post Google AI Introduced Guardrailed-AMIE (g-AMIE): A Multi-Agent Approach to Accountability in Conversational Medical AI appeared first on MarkTechPost.
25/08/2025
How to Implement the LLM Arena-as-a-Judge Approach to Evaluate Large Language Model Outputs
In this tutorial, we will explore how to implement the LLM Arena-as-a-Judge approach to evaluate large language model outputs.Instead of assigning isolated numerical scores to each response, this method performs head-to-head comparisons between outputs to determine which one is better — based on criteria you define, such as helpfulness, clarity, or tone.The post How to Implement the LLM Arena-as-a-Judge Approach to Evaluate Large Language Model Outputs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
25/08/2025
Top 10 AI Blogs and News Websites for AI Developers and Engineers in 2025
Staying current with the latest breakthroughs, tools, and industry shifts is critical for AI developers and engineers.To help you cut through the noise, here’s a curated list of the top 10 AI-focused blogs and news platforms that deliver high-quality, technical, and actionable content for AI developers and engineers at every level.The post Top 10 AI Blogs and News Websites for AI Developers and Engineers in 2025 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
22/08/2025
Zhipu AI Unveils ComputerRL: An AI Framework Scaling End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Computer Use Agents
In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven automation, Zhipu AI has introduced ComputerRL, a groundbreaking framework designed to empower agents with the ability to navigate and manipulate complex digital workspaces.This innovation addresses a core challenge in AI agent development: the disconnect between computer agents and human-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs).The post Zhipu AI Unveils ComputerRL: An AI Framework Scaling End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Computer Use Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
22/08/2025
Google Releases Mangle: A Programming Language for Deductive Database Programming
Google has introduced Mangle, a new open-source programming language that extends the classic logic-based language Datalog for modern deductive database programming.Implemented as a Go library, Mangle is designed to simplify the complex task of querying and reasoning about data spread across multiple, disparate sources.The release addresses a growing challenge for developers and security […]
22/08/2025
August update: What's new in Azure for Partners
We just shared our FY26 partner strategy at MCAPS Start for Partners—and it’s all about what’s next with AI.GPT-5 is now in Azure AI Foundry, offering top-tier reasoning for building intelligent and safe AI apps and agents.Dive into our latest blog and research to learn how Azure-native integration, autoscaling, and unified governance make Azure Databricks the best home for your data and AI workloads, and then share the information with your customers as they consider their preferred data platform.
21/08/2025
AgentCon Southeast Asia 2025 is just around the corner!
AgentCon Southeast Asia 2025 is just around the corner!Be part of this FREE, community-powered AI event where innovation meets collaboration: 📍Dive into hands-on workshops, experience live demos, and gain expert insights on Copilot, agentic AI, and real-world applications from global tech experts.
21/08/2025
Revolutionizing Excel: How Copilot Simplifies Cell Formulas
In this HLS Microsoft 365 Copilot Learning Session Microsoft's Darryl Rowe and Michael Gannotti discuss how Microsoft 365 Copilot simplifies cell formulas and Darryl provides two different demonstrations of the new feature. Today, Microsoft is changing the game with Copilot in Excel, an AI-powered assistant designed to make formula creation easier, faster, and more intuitive.Copilot in Excel is an intelligent assistant that leverages artificial intelligence to help users perform a wide range of tasks, including writing, editing, and troubleshooting cell formulas.
21/08/2025
What Is Speaker Diarization? A 2025 Technical Guide: Top 9 Speaker Diarization Libraries and APIs in 2025
Speaker diarization is the process of answering “who spoke when” by separating an audio stream into segments and consistently labeling each segment by speaker identity (e.g., Speaker A, Speaker B), thereby making transcripts clearer, searchable, and useful for analytics across domains like call centers, legal, healthcare, media, and conversational AI.The post What Is Speaker Diarization?A 2025 Technical Guide: Top 9 Speaker Diarization Libraries and APIs in 2025 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
21/08/2025
How Copilot Can Save Us Energy
Devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Home are not just glorified trivia machines, they’re energy-saving ninjas when used correctly.But here’s the plot twist: these devices can also be energy vampires.With Copilot in your corner, you can harness the power of AI to make your home smarter, greener, and a little less expensive.
21/08/2025
The Future of AI: Developing Lacuna - an agent for Revealing Quiet Assumptions in Product Design
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.I saw an opportunity to create an agent using Copilot Studio, powered by Azure AI Foundry, to investigate the assumptions that were baked into my team's product thinking.
21/08/2025
SQL Server 2025 Preview: Now Supporting Ubuntu 24.04 and TLS 1.3
We are excited to introduce two key enhancements in the SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) for Linux: Ubuntu 24.04 and the addition of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 support.SQL Server 2025 Preview now supports Ubuntu 24.04.How to Deploy SQL Server 2025 RC0 on Ubuntu 24.04
21/08/2025
Generate Now! Podcast - Agentic AI Partner and Industry Conversations
James Caton sits down with Microsoft industry experts and leading global system integrators (GSIs) to explore how Agentic AI is transforming industries— from banking and healthcare to manufacturing and public sector.Each episode will feature behind-the-scenes insights, measurable impact, and the strategic thinking that’s driving Agentic AI success at scale.Subscribe and listen on all major podcast platforms.
21/08/2025
Governing Copilot agents: Your next step starts here
For those of you navigating this shift, Rob Howard, Microsoft’s VP of Copilot Extensibility, offers a practical governance framework in his article, What IT admins need to know about governing AI agents.The article introduces three key governance pillars:Ready to securely and strategically lead your organization into the future of AI?
21/08/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Intune: August 2025
This month's new capabilities tackle these everyday challenges with four key improvements: smarter application control, devices that manage their own patching, multi-admin approval for critical workflows, and better visibility into Apple updates.App Control for Business is now generally available with new targeting capabilities that make Managed Installer enterprise ready.Windows 11 devices now grab quality updates automatically during their out-of-box experience on Microsoft Entra-joined devices.
21/08/2025
Announcing Public Preview for Azure Service Groups!
Service Groups are a new resource container enabling management and observability scenarios where flexibility in hierarchy and membership is needed.No, Service Groups have been designed to work in parallel with existing Azure Groups.Service Groups are tenant level so they can have membership from across the tenant.
21/08/2025
NVIDIA AI Just Released Streaming Sortformer: A Real-Time Speaker Diarization that Figures Out Who’s Talking in Meetings and Calls Instantly
NVIDIA has released its Streaming Sortformer, a breakthrough in real-time speaker diarization that instantly identifies and labels participants in meetings, calls, and voice-enabled applications—even in noisy, multi-speaker environments.Designed for low-latency, GPU-powered inference, the model is optimized for English and Mandarin, and can track up to four simultaneous speakers with millisecond-level precision.The post NVIDIA AI Just Released Streaming Sortformer: A Real-Time Speaker Diarization that Figures Out Who’s Talking in Meetings and Calls Instantly appeared first on MarkTechPost.
21/08/2025
Partner Blog | Drive impact in the era of agentic AI with new benefits and resources in FY26
As we kick off a new fiscal year, we’re renewing our commitment to enabling partners to lead in the era of agentic AI.Unlock new AI-powered benefits in FY26 Beginning in February 2026, we will roll out new and enhanced benefits designed to reflect partner feedback and enable further growth—starting with Microsoft AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
21/08/2025
Skilling snack: Get started with AI in Windows
Start at the top to understand the broader implications of AI on the Windows ecosystem or jump straight to your topic of interest to learn more.Help improve productivity for users in your organization by pinning Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to the navigation bar and downloading the Copilot Success Kit.Learn about using and managing enhanced enterprise data protection (EDP), Microsoft Entra accounts, the Copilot app, the Copilot hardware key, and more.
21/08/2025
Microsoft Entra Private Access for Domain Controllers is now in Public Preview
Microsoft Entra Private Access for Active Directory Domain Controllers is now in Public Preview.As part of Microsoft’s Security Service Edge (SSE), this feature lets organizations use Conditional Access and multi-factor authentication (MFA) for internal resources that authenticate through Kerberos, managed via Global Secure Access.Microsoft Entra Private Access for Active Directory Domain Controllers enhances Zero Trust access controls for on-premises resources through the deployment of the Private Access sensor, a lightweight agent installed on domain controllers.
21/08/2025
MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Schema Compare, Schema Designer, Local SQL Server Container GA
In version v1.35.0, we’re announcing the General Availability (GA) of Schema Designer, Schema Compare, and Local SQL Server Containers — three powerful tools that bring structure, clarity, and flexibility to your local development workflow.What’s new in MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.35The v1.35 release marks a major milestone with the general availability of Schema Designer, Schema Compare, and the Local SQL Server Container.
21/08/2025
Enforcing Angular Unit Test Coverage in Azure DevOps Pipelines: A Step-by-Step Guide
2️⃣ Run Angular Unit Tests with Coverage Why it matters: Makes test results visible in Azure DevOps UI.By enforcing Angular unit tests in your Azure DevOps pipeline with JUnit, Cobertura, and a 70% threshold, you build a quality gate that scales with your team.
21/08/2025
Syksyn 2025 tekniset ja myynnin Kumppanitunnit
Microsoftin tekniset ja myynnille suunnatut Kumppanitunnit järjestetään Cloud Champion -sivustolla, josta ne ovat kätevästi saatavilla tallenteina materiaaleineen pari tuntia live-lähetyksen jälkeen.Kumppanitunti on joka toinen perjantai klo 10–11 järjestettävä Microsoftin kumppaniwebinaari, joka on tarkoitettu Microsoftin kumppaneille.Microsoftin suomalaiset arkkitehdit, tuotepäälliköt, ratkaisumyyjät ja kumppanivastaavat ovat poimineet kiinnostavia ja hyödyllisiä aiheita, joita he vuorollaan esittelevät.
21/08/2025
Seeing Images Through the Eyes of Decision Trees
In this article, you'll learn to: • Turn unstructured, raw image data into structured, informative features.
21/08/2025
Learn about Binary Stream's ISV Success for Business Applications solutions in Microsoft AppSource
Microsoft ISV Success for Business Applications offers platforms, resources, and support designed to help partners develop, publish, and market business apps. Learn about offers from Binary Stream Software below:Businesses can use Subscription Billing Suite, an extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, to drive growth and streamline their financial operations.Advanced Subscription Management also enables compliance with key accounting and financial standards, like ASC 606, IFRS 15, ASC 842, and IFRS 16.
21/08/2025
7 Pandas Tricks to Improve Your Machine Learning Model Development
If you're reading this, it's likely that you are already aware that the performance of a machine learning model is not just a function of the chosen algorithm.
21/08/2025
Introducing the New SharePoint Page Template Gallery
We’re excited to announce that the new SharePoint Template Gallery is now generally available for commercial customers worldwide!A rich collection of modern, out-of-the-box (OOB) templates under ‘From Microsoft’, designed to help you create polished pages and news posts with ease.Browse and select a template in the new Templates Gallery
21/08/2025
What is DeepSeek-V3.1 and Why is Everyone Talking About It?
The Chinese AI startup DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.1, it’s latest flagship language model.Notably, DeepSeek models have rapidly gained a reputation for delivering OpenAI and Anthropic-level performance at a fraction of the cost.Model Architecture and Capabilities Performance Benchmarks […]
21/08/2025
DeepCode: An Open Agentic Coding Platform that Transforms Research Papers and Technical Documents into Production-Ready Code
The emergence of advanced AI development tools is revolutionizing the way researchers and engineers translate groundbreaking academic ideas into robust, real-world applications.A team of researchers from the University of Hong Kong release DeepCode.DeepCode proposes an “Open Agentic Coding” paradigm, leveraging multi-agent AI systems to automate coding processes from research paper interpretation through to […]
21/08/2025
Meet South Korea’s LLM Powerhouses: HyperClova, AX, Solar Pro, and More
South Korea is rapidly establishing itself as a key innovator in large language models (LLMs), driven by strategic government investments, corporate research, and open-source collaborations to create models tailored for Korean language processing and domestic applications.This focus helps mitigate dependencies on foreign AI technologies, enhances data privacy, and supports sectors like healthcare, education, and […]The post Meet South Korea’s LLM Powerhouses: HyperClova, AX, Solar Pro, and More appeared first on MarkTechPost.
21/08/2025
Unlocking Regional Insights with the Location Based Capabilities REST API
Managing MySQL Flexible Server deployments across Azure regions often means navigating differences in available features, SKUs, storage options, backup retention periods, or high availability configurations. That’s where the Location-Based Capability Set – List API comes in, providing a programmatic way to retrieve up-to-date, region-specific capabilities.These PowerShell and Bash scripts help you quickly check Azure Database for MySQL capabilities in a region to prevent deployment issues and ensure reliable provisioning workflows.
21/08/2025
Seoul AI Hub & Microsoft MVPs Empower Citizens with AI Skills — No Coding Required
Seoul AI Hub, an AI-specialized support organization under the Seoul Metropolitan Government, is dedicated to fostering the city’s AI industry ecosystem through talent development, startup incubation, and public education.In partnership with Microsoft MVPs, the hub is making AI accessible to all through the AI Frontiers Series — blending expert talks with hands-on workshops.The collaboration between Seoul AI Hub and Microsoft MVPs demonstrates the transformative power of community-led expertise.
21/08/2025
Liquid AI Releases LFM2-VL: Super-Fast, Open-Weight Vision-Language Models Designed for Low-Latency and Device-Aware Deployment
Liquid AI has officially released LFM2-VL, a new family of vision-language foundation models optimized for low-latency, on-device deployment.With two highly efficient variants—LFM2-VL-450M and LFM2-VL-1.6B—this launch marks a significant leap in bringing multimodal AI to smartphones, laptops, wearables, and embedded systems without compromising speed or accuracy.Unprecedented Speed and Efficiency LFM2-VL models are engineered to […]
21/08/2025
ZenFlow: A New DeepSpeed Extension Designed as a Stall-Free Offloading Engine for Large Language Model (LLM) Training
The DeepSpeed team unveiled ZenFlow, a new offloading engine designed to overcome a major bottleneck in large language model (LLM) training: CPU-induced GPU stalls.While offloading optimizers and gradients to CPU memory reduces GPU memory pressure, traditional frameworks like ZeRO-Offload and ZeRO-Infinity often leave expensive GPUs idle for most of each training step—waiting on slow […]The post ZenFlow: A New DeepSpeed Extension Designed as a Stall-Free Offloading Engine for Large Language Model (LLM) Training appeared first on MarkTechPost.
20/08/2025
Deep Learning Framework Showdown: PyTorch vs TensorFlow in 2025
The choice between PyTorch and TensorFlow remains one of the most debated decisions in AI development.Both frameworks have evolved dramatically since their inception, converging in some areas while maintaining distinct strengths.This article explores the latest patterns from the comprehensive survey paper from Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia, synthesizing usability, performance, deployment, and ecosystem considerations […]
20/08/2025
Model Mondays S2E10: Automating Document Processing with AI
We kicked off with the top news and updates in the Azure AI ecosystem:Agent Factory Blog Series:A new 6-part blog series on designing reliable, agentic AI—exploring multi-step, collaborative agents that reflect, plan, and adapt using tool integrations and design patterns.This week’s spotlight was a hands-on exploration of document processing, featuring both Microsoft and Mistral AI experts.
20/08/2025
Migrating Oracle Partitioned Tables to Azure PostgreSQL Without Altering Partition Keys
When migrating partitioned tables from Oracle to Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server, many customers prefer to preserve their existing Oracle table design exactly as defined in the original DDLs. Specifically, they want to avoid altering the partition key structure, especially by not adding the partition key to any primary or unique constraints, because doing so would change the table’s original design integrity.It supports declarative partitioning in PostgreSQL while eliminating the need to modify primary or unique constraints to include the partition key.However, Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server requires that any primary or unique constraint on a partitioned table must also include the partition key.
20/08/2025
Key Considerations to Avoid Implicit Conversion Issues in Oracle to Azure SQL Modernization
This blog dives into the mechanics of implicit data type conversions and their impact during the post-migration performance optimization phase of heterogeneous database migrations.Drawing from our observed Engineering field patterns across diverse application architectures, this blog explores why certain platforms like ORMs, JDBC drivers, and cross-platform data models are more prone to implicit conversions than others and how they result in performance issues, break indexes, or cause query regressions.Refactor your application code to leverage strongly typed variables and parameter declarations to ensure data type consistency at the source, minimizing implicit conversions during query execution.
20/08/2025
OneNote for Windows 10 support is ending
Today, I’d like to share an important update: Beginning October 14, OneNote for Windows 10 will reach End of Support.We recommend OneNote customers begin using the OneNote on Windows app for a more streamlined experience.OneNote for Windows 10 support is ending
20/08/2025
Limiting Onmicrosoft Domain Usage for Sending Emails
MOERA domains for emailIf your tenant's default domain is a MOERA domain, set the default domain to a custom domain.You can use the Message Trace feature in Exchange Admin Center to retrieve the outbound traffic being sent from your tenant. By placing a wild card address in the Senders field, you can get a report with all traffic using your onmicrosoft.com domain to send.
20/08/2025
Discover the latest security innovations at Microsoft Ignite 2025
In today’s rapidly evolving digital world, security leaders and practitioners face new challenges—and opportunities—driven by the rise of AI. At Microsoft Ignite, we will showcase end-to-end security innovations and share world class threat and regulatory intelligence to give you the advantage you need to safely adopt AI and face the rapidly changing threat landscape.Visionary insights: Hear directly from Microsoft Security leaders and industry experts on the evolving threat landscape and the role of AI in defense.San Francisco, November 17–21, 2025 Or join us online November 18–21
20/08/2025
Google AI Released 5 New AI Agents/Platforms for Developers
Google Cloud recently unveiled five specialized AI agents designed to streamline developer workflows—reducing manual effort, accelerating analysis, and lowering the barrier to advanced data and code automation.Each agent addresses a distinct developer challenge, from data pipeline orchestration to enterprise-grade GitHub management.Here’s a detailed look at what these agents do, their technical underpinnings, and […]
20/08/2025
Streamlining Document Creation with Microsoft 365 Copilot: A Step-by-Step Workflow
Whether producing content for external customers or for those inside of your organization the use of the Researcher Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat combined with Edit in Pages to Microsoft Word and Audio overviews can save you hours, if not days of work.Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat addresses these challenges, offering a seamless workflow that leverages AI-powered capabilities to streamline document creation from initial research to final delivery.By integrating the Researcher Agent, Pages collaboration, Word distribution, and audio podcast overview into a unified workflow, Microsoft 365 Copilot dramatically reduces the time and effort required to produce high-quality documents.
20/08/2025
Most widely used SharePoint Framework ISVs from the Store - July 2025
We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store for extending experiences for SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Viva.SharePoint Framework is extensibility model for Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 app and SharePoint (soon also for Copilot).It enables the same code to be used easily across the Microsoft 365 with this widely adopted tooling which uses industry standard tech with easy and automatic SSO and hosting. Usage of SPFx continues to grow steady and we have currently tens of millions of monthly active users in Microsoft 365 on custom extensibility build with SPFx.
20/08/2025
Hotpatch readiness: Enable VBS at scale
If you're looking to bring hotpatch to your environment, there’s one key requirement to start with: virtualization-based security (VBS) must be enabled on your devices.With the hotpatching feature of Windows Autopatch, you can apply security updates to Windows without requiring a restart.Alternatively, enable VBS using this command in an elevated command prompt:
20/08/2025
Microsoft Copilot Studio: Créer et déployer un chatbot
Copilot Studio est un outil faisant parti de Microsoft 365 qui permet de créer facilement des Chatbots.Un Agent Copilot est capable de discuter avec les utilisateurs en langage naturel.Un responsable d’un projet d’étudiant qui veut créer un assistant virtuel pour répondre aux questions fréquentes sur le projet :
20/08/2025
Viva Amplify Just Got a Whole Lot More Expressive
At Microsoft, we believe that great communication is more than just delivering a message, it’s about creating connection, clarity, and impact. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a set of powerful new features in Viva Amplify that give communicators even more creative control and flexibility: multi-column layouts, animated GIF support, custom themes, and custom fonts.With support for animated GIFs, you can now add energy and emotion to your communications.Viva Amplify now supports custom fonts sourced from your organization’s Brand Center, allowing you to maintain consistency across SharePoint pages and Outlook email*.
20/08/2025
Introducing Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes: a Step to Last Exchange Server Retirement
In hybrid environments, mailbox attributes of directory-synchronized user accounts cannot be managed from Exchange Online by design – attempts to edit mailbox attributes in the cloud would usually be blocked because the object source of authority (SOA) is on-premises.A new Exchange Online feature (in preview) helps eliminate the need for an Exchange server for remote mailbox management, by enabling cloud-side management of directory-synchronized user remote mailbox attributes.We are excited to introduce a new feature in Exchange Online that allows administrators to manage Exchange properties of directory-synchronized users with remote mailboxes directly from the cloud.
20/08/2025
New in Azure Marketplace: August 1-11, 2025
For this volume, 241 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.Features include unified audit dashboard, AI-driven anomaly detection, real-time monitoring, generative AI-powered report generation, policy interpretation, smart assistant for auditors, secure role-based access, and seamless integration with Microsoft 365, Azure, SharePoint, and popular data platforms.MKB (NL): Available in Dutch, Cyber Basics NIS2 is a comprehensive information security management system (ISMS) solution for cybersecurity compliance, simplifying NIS2 requirements with pre-defined policies and procedures.
20/08/2025
Beyond Prompts: How Agentic AI is Redefining Human-AI Collaboration
Here are the high-level steps to get started with Agentic AI using only official Microsoft resources, each with a direct link to the relevant documentation:Build an Agentic Web App with Semantic Kernel or Foundry - Follow a hands-on tutorial to integrate agentic capabilities into a .NET web app using Semantic Kernel or Azure AI Foundry.I'm Juliet Rajan, a Lead Technical Trainer and passionate innovator in AI education.
20/08/2025
A Practical Guide to Handling Out-of-Memory Data in Python
These days, it is not uncommon to come across datasets that are too large to fit into random access memory (RAM), especially when working on advanced data analysis projects at scale, managing streaming data generated at high velocity, or building large machine learning models.
20/08/2025
Migrating to Model Context Protocol (MCP): An Adapter-First Playbook
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly emerged as a universal standard for connecting AI models to diverse applications, systems, and tools—imagine “USB-C for AI integrations,” as commonly described in the industry.For organizations accustomed to custom integrations, the migration to MCP can be transformative, simultaneously reducing technical debt and unlocking new interoperability benefits.The post Migrating to Model Context Protocol (MCP): An Adapter-First Playbook appeared first on MarkTechPost.
20/08/2025
Shipped! Surveys Agent now live for customers in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Frontier program)
Today, we’re excited to introduce Surveys Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, a brand-new pre-built agent developed by Microsoft, now available through the Frontier program.Surveys Agent in BizChatSurveys Agent is now available to commercial users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license as part of the Frontier program that gives customers early access to new Copilot innovations while they’re still in development.
20/08/2025
Hello, AI Formulas: Why =COPILOT() Is the Biggest Excel Upgrade in Years
Microsoft has officially introduced the COPILOT function in Excel for Windows and Mac, bringing the power of large language models (LLMs) directly into spreadsheets.This move represents a fundamental shift: AI is now a native feature, not just an external add-in or separate tool.Users can now analyze, summarize, and generate data using natural language […]
20/08/2025
Signal and Noise: Unlocking Reliable LLM Evaluation for Better AI Decisions
Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is both scientifically and economically costly.As the field races toward ever-larger models, the methodology for evaluating and comparing them becomes increasingly critical—not just for benchmark scores, but for informed development decisions.Recent research from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) introduces a robust framework centered around two fundamental […]
20/08/2025
A Coding Implementation to Build a Complete Self-Hosted LLM Workflow with Ollama, REST API, and Gradio Chat Interface
In this tutorial, we implement a fully functional Ollama environment inside Google Colab to replicate a self-hosted LLM workflow.We begin by installing Ollama directly on the Colab VM using the official Linux installer and then launch the Ollama server in the background to expose the HTTP API on localhost:11434.The post A Coding Implementation to Build a Complete Self-Hosted LLM Workflow with Ollama, REST API, and Gradio Chat Interface appeared first on MarkTechPost.
20/08/2025
Meet M3-Agent: A Multimodal Agent with Long-Term Memory and Enhanced Reasoning Capabilities
In the future, a home robot could manage daily chores itself and learn household patterns from ongoing experience.For a multimodal agent, this intelligence depends on (a) observing the world through multimodal sensors continuously, (b) storing its experience in long-term […]The post Meet M3-Agent: A Multimodal Agent with Long-Term Memory and Enhanced Reasoning Capabilities appeared first on MarkTechPost.
20/08/2025
Breaking Limits: Full-Length SQL Audit Statements Now Supported for Azure SQL DB
We’re excited to announce a major enhancement to SQL auditing in Azure SQL Database, the removal of the 4,000-character truncation limit for audit records.With this update, statements are no longer truncated.Audit logs now capture the entire content of auditable actions, ensuring complete visibility and traceability for security and compliance teams.
20/08/2025
Event Recap - TechCon Atlanta - August 2025
We’ve just concluded an unforgettable week at the Microsoft 365, Copilot / AI & Power Platform Conference in Atlanta, GA, hosted at the Georgia World Congress Center from August 11–15, 2025.It’s a workforce, leadership, and community topic.3️⃣ The 10-10-10 guideline from author Suzy Welch, a decision-making tool my dad, Stan Cook, shared with me years ago that I still use today. Using the new Researcher Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, I pulled stats from the 2025 PwC Global AI Jobs Barometer Report (a must read) and generated a 21-page paper in minutes.This will fuel future blogs and content on supporting women in AI-exposed roles and amplifying conversations around women’s health.
19/08/2025
Building AI Muscle Today: Why and How Organizations Should Embrace AI Now
A 2025 McKinsey report revealed that while almost all companies have invested in AI, only about 1% feel they have achieved AI maturity.According to Microsoft’s Work Trend Index 2024, 75% of knowledge workers are now using generative AI at work, a figure that nearly doubled in just six months.Yet many organizations have no clear AI strategy: 60% of leaders say their company lacks a concrete AI vision or plan.
19/08/2025
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron Nano 2 AI Models: A Production-Ready Enterprise AI Model Family and 6x Faster than Similar Sized Model
NVIDIA has unveiled the Nemotron Nano 2 family, introducing a line of hybrid Mamba-Transformer large language models (LLMs) that not only push state-of-the-art reasoning accuracy but also deliver up to 6× higher inference throughput than models of similar size.This release stands out with unprecedented transparency in data and methodology, as NVIDIA provides most of […]The post NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron Nano 2 AI Models: A Production-Ready Enterprise AI Model Family and 6x Faster than Similar Sized Model appeared first on MarkTechPost.
19/08/2025
Partner Case Study | 3Cloud
A multi-time Partner of the Year Award winner, including both the Data & AI and Healthcare & Life Sciences categories in 2024, 3Cloud has been building on Azure since 2016.Fully dedicated to Azure, the team was founded by former Microsoft colleagues and has helped more than 1,600 clients with their Azure engagements.This impressive track record made 3Cloud a natural choice when Members 1st Federal Credit Union decided they wanted to harness their data infrastructure to deliver more personalized, convenient experiences to their members.
19/08/2025
Generating Classes with Custom Naming Conventions Using GitHub Copilot and a Custom MCP Server
To address such needs, one possible approach is to build a custom MCP server and connect it to GitHub Copilot.By building an MCP server as an ASP.NET Core application and integrating it with GitHub Copilot, you can introduce custom rules and functionality tailored to your organization’s needs.In this article, we introduced how to build your own MCP server and use it via the GitHub Copilot Agent.
19/08/2025
Prep for fall classes and college life with Microsoft Copilot
Up your life skills with recipes and moreLiving on your own for the first time means taking on a lot of new tasks, like cooking for yourself or navigating public transit.Learn about the Microsoft 365 Insider program and sign up for the Microsoft 365 Insider newsletter to get the latest information about Insider features in your inbox once a month!
19/08/2025
M365 Copilot Prompt-a-thon: A Hands-On Event for Government Innovators
Join us for an immersive, in-person experience at the Microsoft Innovation Hub in Reston, VA on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET.Through interactive sessions, hands-on exercises, and real-world mission scenarios, you’ll learn how to transform your day-to-day operations using generative AI.Learn how to build a compelling business case for generative AI adoption in your agency.
19/08/2025
What's New in Microsoft EDU - Back to School August 2025
Microsoft 365 LTI brings Microsoft 365 for Education capabilities for learning management systems together into a single tool and streamlined user experience.Microsoft 365 LTI is now in public preview for Instructure Canvas, Powerschool Schoology, Anthology Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, and Moodle.We recently introduced the updated Microsoft 365 Copilot app, your hub for the latest functionality and later this year in preview, for AI-powered features for educators.
19/08/2025
New in Microsoft AppSource: August 1-11, 2025
For this volume, 209 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.Chain Partner (NL): Cyber Basics NIS2/Cybersecurity Act is an ISMS solution for NIS2 compliance designed for supply chain partners.MKB (NL): Cyber Basics NIS2/Cybersecurity Act is a comprehensive ISMS solution for cybersecurity compliance, simplifying NIS2 requirements with pre-defined policies and procedures.
19/08/2025
Microsoft Sentinel’s New Data Lake: Cut Costs & Boost Threat Detection
Now, with the introduction of its new Data Lake architecture, Sentinel is transforming how security data is stored, accessed, and analyzed, bringing unmatched flexibility and scale to threat investigation.Unlike Microsoft Fabric OneLake, which supports analytics across the organization, Sentinel’s Data Lake is purpose-built for security.Microsoft Sentinel’s Data Lake separates storage from computing, offering scalable and cost-effective analytics and compliance.
19/08/2025
The Bias-Variance Trade-Off: A Visual Explainer
You've built a machine learning model that performs perfectly on training data but fails on new examples.
19/08/2025
SharePoint Pages: Introducing Sections with AI
Sections with AI works by first looking at the context of your page to offer prompt suggestions for what content you need next to offer a starting point.Figure 1: Click the "Add section using AI" section next to the '+' button between sectionsOnce you click generate, Sections with AI then leverages your sources, the knowledge and content already inside of your organization, and the content already on your page to create rich sections that go beyond just image and text.
19/08/2025
Memp: A Task-Agnostic Framework that Elevates Procedural Memory to a Core Optimization Target in LLM-based Agent
LLM agents have become powerful enough to handle complex tasks, ranging from web research and report generation to data analysis and multi-step software workflows.However, they struggle with procedural memory, which is often rigid, manually designed, or locked inside model weights today.The post Memp: A Task-Agnostic Framework that Elevates Procedural Memory to a Core Optimization Target in LLM-based Agent appeared first on MarkTechPost.
19/08/2025
Emerging Trends in AI Cybersecurity Defense: What’s Shaping 2025? Top AI Security Tools
The AI security arms race is in full swing.As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, organizations are reimagining defense strategies—with artificial intelligence taking center stage.Here’s a look at some of the most impactful trends you should watch in AI-powered cybersecurity defense.
19/08/2025
BlackRock Introduces AlphaAgents: Advancing Equity Portfolio Construction with Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial markets has grown rapidly, with large language models (LLMs) increasingly applied to equity analysis, portfolio management, and stock selection.BlackRock research team proposed AlphaAgents for investment research.The AlphaAgents framework leverages the power of multi-agent systems to improve investment outcomes, reduce cognitive bias, and enhance the decision-making […]
19/08/2025
Announcing Early Preview: BYO Remote MCP Server on Azure Functions
If you’ve already built Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with the MCP SDKs and wished you could turn them into world class Remote MCP servers using a hyperscale, serverless platform, then this one’s for you!We’ve published samples showing how to host bring‑your-own (BYO) Remote MCP servers on Azure Functions, so you can run the servers you’ve already built with the MCP SDKs—Python, Node, and .NET—with minimal changes and full serverless goodness.If you’ve already implemented servers with the MCP SDKs (Python, Node, .NET), deploy them to Azure Functions as remote MCP servers with just one line of code change.
19/08/2025
Master Vibe Coding: Pros, Cons, and Best Practices for Data Engineers
Large-language-model (LLM) tools now let engineers describe pipeline goals in plain English and receive generated code—a workflow dubbed vibe coding.Used well, it can accelerate prototyping and documentation.Used carelessly, it can introduce silent data corruption, security risks, or unmaintainable code.
19/08/2025
Qwen Team Introduces Qwen-Image-Edit: The Image Editing Version of Qwen-Image with Advanced Capabilities for Semantic and Appearance Editing
In the domain of multimodal AI, instruction-based image editing models are transforming how users interact with visual content.Just released in August 2025 by Alibaba’s Qwen Team, Qwen-Image-Edit builds on the 20B-parameter Qwen-Image foundation to deliver advanced editing capabilities.This model excels in semantic editing (e.g., style transfer and novel view synthesis) and appearance editing […]
18/08/2025
Optimizing Large-Scale AI Performance with Pretraining Validation on a Single Azure ND GB200 v6
The Llama3 8B model was selected as the focus of this analysis due to its relevance as a modern, open-weight large language model (LLM) architecture.Llama 3 70B is too large to fit onto the previous generations of virtual machines covered in our Azure AI Benchmarking guide, while the 3B model doesn’t fully stress the ND GB200 v6 VM.This section explains parallelism parameters (tensor, pipeline, context, data) and micro batch size to maximize the Azure virtual machine’s performance and training speed.
18/08/2025
Optimize Large-Scale AI performance with proven Single VM pretraining validation on ND GB200 v6
The Llama3 8B model was selected as the focus of this analysis due to its relevance as a modern, open-weight large language model (LLM) architecture.Llama 3 70B is too large to fit onto the previous generations of virtual machines covered in our Azure AI Benchmarking guide, while the 3B model doesn’t fully stress the ND GB200 v6 VM.This section explains parallelism parameters (tensor, pipeline, context, data) and micro batch size to maximize the Azure virtual machine’s performance and training speed.
18/08/2025
Creating Dashboards Using Vizro MCP: Vizro is an Open-Source Python Toolkit by McKinsey
Vizro is an open-source Python toolkit by McKinsey that makes it easy to build beautiful, production-ready data visualization apps.With just a few lines of configuration (via JSON, YAML, or Python dictionaries), you can create multi-page dashboards that would normally take thousands of lines of code.Built on top of Plotly, Dash, and Pydantic, Vizro […]
18/08/2025
How do I choose the right model for my agent?
How do I choose the right model for my agent?Define the level of reasoning and adaptability your agent needs.In short: start by mapping out your agent’s needs in terms of data types, reasoning depth, control, domain, and interaction style.
18/08/2025
August V1 Title Plan Now Available
🗂️ August V1 Title Plan Now AvailableAccess the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at: http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_PlanMake sure you're always working from the most current version.
18/08/2025
Course Retirement Announcement: DP-3012
The retirement is due to low demand and the availability of alternative courses that better align with current industry needs and technologies.DP-700T00: Microsoft Fabric Data EngineerThere is no direct replacement for DP-3012, but these alternatives offer robust pathways for developing data engineering and analytics skills on Microsoft platforms.
18/08/2025
Released: August 2025 Skype for Business Server Hotfix Updates
Microsoft has released Hotfix Updates (HUs) for Skype for Business (SfB) Server that introduces support for a new security-related feature.Starting with the August 2025 Hotfix (HF), Skype for Business Server has the capability to configure a Dedicated Hybrid Application to ensure secure and reliable hybrid integration with Exchange Online.Note: For Skype for Business Server 2015, administrators must also run the add_sfbassets.ps1 script after installing the update to ensure continued functionality of the Skype Meetings Application.
18/08/2025
Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in Excel
Today, I’m excited to introduce the new COPILOT function in Microsoft Excel for Windows and Excel for Mac, a major step forward in how you work with data that brings the power of large language models directly into the grid and makes it easier than ever to analyze text, generate content, and work faster.Bring AI to your formulas with the COPILOT function in ExcelThe new COPILOT function in Excel for Windows and Excel for Mac is here to save time and supercharge your workflows!
18/08/2025
How The Great Copilot Journey Helps Drive Copilot Usage
Internal Microsoft pilots saw more than 23% higher daily active usageThe Great Copilot Journey is a 30-day skilling resource that helps users learn how to use Copilot, one prompt at time.We ran internal pilots of the Great Copilot Journey for Microsoft 365 Copilot with 653 participants, and here’s what we found:
18/08/2025
Enhance Your Data Protection Strategy with Azure Elastic SAN’s Newest Backup Options
As organizations adopt Azure Elastic SAN for scalable high-performance storage, we are pleased to announce the public preview of backup support via Azure Backup and Commvault.Both the integration of Azure Backup for Elastic SAN and Commvault’s integration with Elastic SAN are in public preview and available for everyone to use.With features such as independent lifecycle backups, high-frequency restore points, and simplified management, you can confidently protect your Elastic SAN volumes from a range of data loss scenarios.
18/08/2025
Deep Dive: DLP Incidents, Alerts & Events - Part 2
In addition to these standard details, the alert view also displays the correlation reason, which is particularly beneficial for security analysts and administrators.The details page is divided into two sections.Now that we understand incidents and alerts, let's review events.
18/08/2025
Unlocking Summer Productivity: 3 Microsoft 365 Features SMBs Should Be Using Right Now
Loop is collaborative workspace app designed for teams to co-create and organize content.These pages can then be shared across Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 apps as links or embedded Loop components.Microsoft OneNote: Streamline Task Management
18/08/2025
Deep Dive: DLP Incidents, Alerts & Events - Part 1
Prior to delving into the specifics, it is essential to understand that Microsoft Defender employs correlation analytics to aggregate related alerts and automated investigations from various products into a single incident.Alert correlation and incident merging in the Microsoft Defender portal - Microsoft Defender XDR |Microsoft Defender XDR automatically names incidents, alerts, and events using attributes like activity, channel, users, detection sources, and category.
18/08/2025
更新プログラム適用後、bcp.exe の出力メッセージが英語になる
SQL Server の更新プログラムを適用後、日本語リソースファイルを再配置します。As a result, the Japanese resource file for the ODBC driver is deleted during the update process.After applying the SQL Server update, relocate the Japanese resource file.
18/08/2025
How to Diagnose Why Your Classification Model Fails
In classification models , failure occurs when the model assigns the wrong class to a new data observation; that is, when its classification accuracy is not high enough over a certain number of predictions.
18/08/2025
Simplify networking and enhance security with Azure Virtual WAN and Fortinet in Azure Marketplace
In this guest blog post, Srija Reddy Allam, a cloud security architect at Fortinet, explores how Azure Virtual WAN simplifies networking and how integrating FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall, available in Azure Marketplace, enhances security and performance for seamless, scalable connectivity across distributed environments.To streamline connectivity across hybrid and cloud environments, many enterprises are turning to cloud-native networking models, such as Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN).Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) in Azure Marketplace offers a wide range of capabilities, including advanced networking, SD-WAN, IPsec, and SSL VPN functionalities, alongside robust security features such as intrusion prevention and detection, antivirus, web and video filtering, SSL inspection, and more.
18/08/2025
7 NumPy Tricks You Didn’t Know You Needed
NumPy is one of the most popular Python libraries for working with numbers and data.
18/08/2025
GPT-5: The 7 new features enabling real world use cases
GPT-5 was trained with a focus on features that provide value to real world use cases.In this article we will cover the key innovations in GPT-5 and provides practical examples of these differences in action.We will cover the below 7 new features, that will help accelerate your real world adoption of GenAI:
18/08/2025
Introducing new SharePoint Site Header & Footer Enhancements
To better align with modern design standards and evolving customer expectations, we’re excited to introduce a refreshed and more customizable visual experience for the SharePoint site header and footer.When will this feature be available?General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): Rollout begins late August 2025 and completes by mid of September 2025.
18/08/2025
How to Use Custom Models with Foundry Local: A Beginner's Guide
Foundry Local is a user-friendly tool that helps you run small AI language models directly on your Windows or Mac computer.Microsoft Olive is like a smart assistant that helps convert AI models for you.This command takes you to the "models folder" - think of it as the app store for your AI models.
18/08/2025
Is Model Context Protocol MCP the Missing Standard in AI Infrastructure?
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), has revolutionized how businesses operate, from automating customer service to enhancing data analysis.Yet, as enterprises integrate AI into core workflows, a persistent challenge emerges: how to securely and efficiently connect these models to real-world data sources without custom, fragmented integrations.The post Is Model Context Protocol MCP the Missing Standard in AI Infrastructure? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/08/2025
Alibaba AI Team Just Released Ovis 2.5 Multimodal LLMs: A Major Leap in Open-Source AI with Enhanced Visual Perception and Reasoning Capabilities
Ovis2.5, the latest large multimodal language model (MLLM) from Alibaba’s AIDC-AI team, is making waves in the open-source AI community with its 9B and 2B parameter variants.Ovis2.5 sets new benchmarks for performance and efficiency by introducing technical advances geared toward native-resolution vision perception, deep multimodal reasoning, and robust OCR — tackling long-standing limitations faced […]The post Alibaba AI Team Just Released Ovis 2.5 Multimodal LLMs: A Major Leap in Open-Source AI with Enhanced Visual Perception and Reasoning Capabilities appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/08/2025
What is AI Inference? A Technical Deep Dive and Top 9 AI Inference Providers (2025 Edition)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved rapidly—especially in how models are deployed and operated in real-world systems.The core function that connects model training to practical applications is “inference”.This article offers a technical deep dive into AI inference as of 2025, covering its distinction from training, latency challenges for modern models, and optimization strategies such […]
18/08/2025
Building an MCP-Powered AI Agent with Gemini and mcp-agent Framework: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide
In this tutorial, we walk through building an advanced AI agent using the mcp-agent and Gemini.We start by setting up a robust environment with all the necessary dependencies and then implement an MCP tool server that provides structured services such as web search, data analysis, code execution, and weather information.The post Building an MCP-Powered AI Agent with Gemini and mcp-agent Framework: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/08/2025
Hugging Face Unveils AI Sheets: A Free, Open-Source No-Code Toolkit for LLM-Powered Datasets
Hugging Face has just released AI Sheets, a free, open-source, and local-first no-code tool designed to radically simplify dataset creation and enrichment with AI.AI Sheets aims to democratize access to AI-powered data handling by merging the intuitive spreadsheet interface with direct access to leading open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) like Qwen, Kimi, Llama 3, […]The post Hugging Face Unveils AI Sheets: A Free, Open-Source No-Code Toolkit for LLM-Powered Datasets appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/08/2025
How to Test an OpenAI Model Against Single-Turn Adversarial Attacks Using deepteam
In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to test an OpenAI model against single-turn adversarial attacks using deepteam. deepteam provides 10+ attack methods—like prompt injection, jailbreaking, and leetspeak—that expose weaknesses in LLM applications.It begins with simple baseline attacks and then applies more advanced techniques (known as attack enhancement) to mimic real-world malicious behavior.The post How to Test an OpenAI Model Against Single-Turn Adversarial Attacks Using deepteam appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/08/2025
From mission to impact: Why Surface is the trusted choice for nonprofits
Across continents and causes, nonprofits are redefining what it means to serve—and technology is quietly powering this transformation behind the scenes.Nonprofits have always been on the front lines of change, but their work today is more dynamic—and more digital—than ever.With trusted security, mobility built in, and powerful AI at the ready, nonprofits can focus on what they do best: creating lasting change.
17/08/2025
What Is AI Red Teaming? Top 18 AI Red Teaming Tools (2025)
AI Red Teaming is the process of systematically testing artificial intelligence systems—especially generative AI and machine learning models—against adversarial attacks and security stress scenarios.while penetration testing targets known software flaws, red teaming probes for unknown AI-specific vulnerabilities, unforeseen risks, and emergent behaviors.Top 18 AI Red Teaming Tools (2025) appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/08/2025
Meet DeepFleet: Amazon’s New AI Models Suite that can Predict Future Traffic Patterns for Fleets of Mobile Robots
Amazon has reached a remarkable milestone by deploying its one-millionth robot across global fulfillment and sortation centers, solidifying its position as the world’s largest operator of industrial mobile robotics.This achievement coincides with the launch of DeepFleet, a groundbreaking suite of foundation models designed to enhance coordination among vast fleets of mobile robots.The post Meet DeepFleet: Amazon’s New AI Models Suite that can Predict Future Traffic Patterns for Fleets of Mobile Robots appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/08/2025
From Deployment to Scale: 11 Foundational Enterprise AI Concepts for Modern Businesses
In the era of artificial intelligence, enterprises face both unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges.Success hinges not just on adopting the latest tools, but on fundamentally rethinking how AI integrates with people, processes, and platforms.Here are eleven AI concepts every enterprise leader must understand to harness AI’s transformative potential, backed by the latest research […]
17/08/2025
A Coding Guide to Build and Validate End-to-End Partitioned Data Pipelines in Dagster with Machine Learning Integration
In this tutorial, we implement an advanced data pipeline using Dagster.We set up a custom CSV-based IOManager to persist assets, define partitioned daily data generation, and process synthetic sales data through cleaning, feature engineering, and model training.Along the way, we add a data-quality asset check to validate nulls, ranges, and categorical values, and […]
17/08/2025
Meet dots.ocr: A New 1.7B Vision-Language Model that Achieves SOTA Performance on Multilingual Document Parsing
dots.ocr is an open-source vision-language transformer model developed for multilingual document layout parsing and optical character recognition (OCR).It performs both layout detection and content recognition within a single architecture, supporting over 100 languages and a wide variety of structured and unstructured document types.Architecture Capabilities Benchmark Performance dots.ocr has been evaluated against modern document […]
16/08/2025
Amazon Unveils Bedrock AgentCore Gateway: Redefining Enterprise AI Agent Tool Integration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, a transformative managed service designed to simplify and scale AI agent-to-tool integrations for enterprises.As organizations seek to leverage AI agents in increasingly complex environments with hundreds of tools and services, the Gateway addresses critical pain points: interoperability, security, tool discovery, and infrastructure management—all […]The post Amazon Unveils Bedrock AgentCore Gateway: Redefining Enterprise AI Agent Tool Integration appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/08/2025
September Calendar IS HERE!
🚀✨ Another month, another exciting calendar from the Microsoft Hero ✨🚀From 🌍 different time zones, and 🌟 diverse topics, we’re bringing incredible sessions designed for everyone, whether you’re just starting your journey or already an expert in Microsoft and the cloud.This month, we’ve packed the calendar with amazing speakers from across the globe 🌐 who will be sharing their invaluable knowledge and real-world experiences. 🙌💡 Join our live sessions, learn from inspiring experts, and take a step closer to transforming your career, boosting your skills, and making an impact in your organization.⏰ Just like last month, we’re covering multiple time zones, from Australia 🇦🇺, to Europe 🇪🇺, to the Americas 🌎, so no matter where you are, there’s a session waiting for you!👉 Don’t miss out, register today, get ready, and let’s grow together from Zero to Hero! 💪🚀Santhoshkumar Anandakrishnan Mastering Azure Networking Services to Protect Your ApplicationsSeptember 4, 2025 11:00 AM CETSeptember 4, 2025 07:00 PM AEST Arafat TehsinA deep dive into Agentic AI with Semantic KernelSeptember 9, 2025 11:00 AM CETSeptember 9, 2025 07:00 PM AESTKim BergNavigating the Azure AI seasSeptember 13, 2025 06:00 PM CETAndrew O'YoungData Security Considerations for M365 CopilotSeptember 16, 2025 11:00 AM CETSeptember 16, 2025 07:00 PM AESTPam DeGraffenreidStart Smart with AI Builder: Prompts, Power Platform, and Pro TipsSeptember 20, 2025 06:00 PM CETAnthony PorterAutomating Sentinel Triage with Microsoft Security CopilotSeptember 29, 2025 09:00 AM CETSeptember 29, 2025 05:00 PM AEST
16/08/2025
NVIDIA AI Just Released the Largest Open-Source Speech AI Dataset and State-of-the-Art Models for European Languages
Nvidia has taken a major leap in the development of multilingual speech AI, unveiling Granary, the largest open-source speech dataset for European languages, and two state-of-the-art models: Canary-1b-v2 and Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3.This release sets a new standard for accessible, high-quality resources in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation (AST), especially for underrepresented European languages.Granary: […]
16/08/2025
R-Zero: A Fully Autonomous AI Framework that Generates Its Own Training Data from Scratch
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized fields from natural language understanding to reasoning and code generation.A team of researchers from Tencent AI Seattle Lab, Washington University, the University of Maryland, and the University of […]The post R-Zero: A Fully Autonomous AI Framework that Generates Its Own Training Data from Scratch appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/08/2025
This AI Paper Introduces ReaGAN: A Graph Agentic Network That Empowers Nodes with Autonomous Planning and Global Semantic Retrieval
How can we make every node in a graph its own intelligent agent—capable of personalized reasoning, adaptive retrieval, and autonomous decision-making?This is the core question explored by a group researchers from Rutgers University.The research team introduced ReaGAN—a Retrieval-augmented Graph Agentic Network that reimagines each node as an independent reasoning agent.
16/08/2025
Supercharge Your App Service Apps with AI Foundry Agents Connected to MCP servers
The integration of AI into web applications has reached a new milestone with the introduction of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service.This powerful new feature allows developers to extend the capabilities of their Azure AI Foundry agents by connecting them to tools hosted on remote MCP servers—and the best part?In this blog post, we'll explore how this new functionality works, demonstrate a practical implementation, and show you how to get started with your own MCP-enabled applications on App Service.
16/08/2025
Microsoft Security Exposure Management Ninja Training
This blog post has a curation of many Microsoft security exposure management (MSEM) resources, organized in a format that can help you to go from absolutely no knowledge in MSEM, to designing and implementing different scenarios.You can use this blog post as a training roadmap to ramp up your knowledge in MSEM. Microsoft Security Exposure Management empowers customers to:
15/08/2025
Salesforce AI Releases Moirai 2.0: Salesforce’s Latest Time Series Foundation Model Built on a Decoder‑only Transformer Architecture
Salesforce AI Research has unveiled Moirai 2.0, the latest advancement in the world of time series foundation models.Built atop a decoder-only transformer architecture, Moirai 2.0 sets a new bar for performance and efficiency, claiming the #1 spot on the GIFT-Eval benchmark-the gold standard for time-series forecasting model evaluation.Not only is it 44% faster […]
15/08/2025
Welcome to the Microsoft Defender Experts Ninja Hub!
Microsoft Defender Experts for XDRMicrosoft Defender Experts for XDR is a managed extended detection and response (MXDR) service that triages, investigates, and responds to incidents for you to help stop cyberattackers and prevent future compromise.The documentation links below provide more information on the service, requirements, and FAQs:
15/08/2025
An Implementation Guide to Design Intelligent Parallel Workflows in Parsl for Multi-Tool AI Agent Execution
In this tutorial, we implement an AI agent pipeline using Parsl, leveraging its parallel execution capabilities to run multiple computational tasks as independent Python apps.We configure a local ThreadPoolExecutor for concurrency, define specialized tools such as Fibonacci computation, prime counting, keyword extraction, and simulated API calls, and coordinate them through a lightweight planner that […]The post An Implementation Guide to Design Intelligent Parallel Workflows in Parsl for Multi-Tool AI Agent Execution appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/08/2025
Deepening our Partnership with Mistral AI on Azure AI Foundry
We’re excited to mark a new chapter in our collaboration with Mistral AI, a leading European AI innovator, with the launch of Mistral Document AI in Azure AI Foundry Models.This marks the first in a series of Mistral models coming to Azure as a serverless API, giving customers seamless access to Mistral’s cutting-edge capabilities, fully hosted, managed, and integrated into the Foundry ecosystem.Mistral Document AI is built with a multimodal approach that combines vision and language understanding, it interprets documents with contextual intelligence and delivers structured outputs that reflect the original layout—tables remain tables, headings remain headings, and images are preserved alongside the text.”
15/08/2025
Building AI Agents with Ease: Function Calling in VS Code AI Toolkit
Function calling is a powerful technique that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to go beyond their static training data and interact with real-world, dynamic information sources like databases and APIs.The process of Tool/Function calling typically involves two main components: a client application and the LLM.# To authenticate with the model you will need to generate a personal access token (PAT) in your GitHub settings.
15/08/2025
Deploying OpenAI’s First Open-Source Model on Azure AKS with KAITO
OpenAI recently released GPT-OSS, its first open-source large language model.Microsoft Azure’s AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) paired with KAITO (Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator) provides a powerful, scalable environment for deploying such models.In this tutorial, we’ll walk through deploying the openai/gpt-oss-20B model on Azure’s Standard_NV36ads_A10_v5 GPU instances using vLLM for fast inference — all running on AKS via KAITO.
15/08/2025
Empowering.Cloud Community Update – September 2025
The latest Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 expert community briefings, podcasts and upcoming community events for September 2025.Gregory explains how Logitech's Zone Wireless 2 and Zone 305 became the first two Microsoft-certified headsets that work without dongles, eliminating a long-standing pain point for users.Join Microsoft MVPs Zoe Wilson and Kevin McDonnell for the monthly Copilot Fireside Chat series!
15/08/2025
Using Entra ID Authentication with Arc-Enabled SQL Server in a .NET Windows Forms Application
This code connects to an Azure SQL Database using a connection string and an access token obtained through MSAL authentication.Configure Azure Arc SQL Server to use Entra ID authenticationBy following the steps outlined in this guide, developers can ensure secure and efficient connections between their .NET Windows Forms applications and Arc-enabled SQL Server instances using Entra ID authentication.
15/08/2025
Higher log rate for business critical service tier in Azure SQL MI
We are thrilled to publish this article dedicated to a significant improvement for Azure SQL Managed Instance: customers using the business critical service tier on premium series hardware can now benefit from a much higher log rate.This update brings improved transaction processing, faster data recovery, and expanded scalability - empowering mission-critical operations in the cloud.With the new enhancement from June 2025, the per-vCore log rate for the Business Critical service tier on premium series hardware has been substantially improved - from 4.5 MiB/s to 12 MiB/s – extending the log rate benefit to instances running on up to 20 vCores.
15/08/2025
Europe’s Top AI Models of 2025: Multilingual, Open, and Enterprise-Ready
Europe’s AI ecosystem in 2025 is a robust arena of open innovation, multilingual capabilities, and enterprise-grade reasoning.Below, we present an in-depth, fact-checked review of the region’s most advanced AI models, with technical specifications, licensing, and standout strengths.The post Europe’s Top AI Models of 2025: Multilingual, Open, and Enterprise-Ready appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/08/2025
Top 6 Model Context Protocol (MCP) News Blogs (2025 Update)
As Model Context Protocol evolves into the “USB-C port for AI applications,” connecting AI agents to the world’s tools and data, these authoritative blogs and websites are essential for anyone aiming to leverage MCP for enterprise integration, development, or research.Here’s a list of the top MCP resources you need to follow in 2025 (LIVE): […]The post Top 6 Model Context Protocol (MCP) News Blogs (2025 Update) appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/08/2025
One MCP Server, Two Transports: STDIO and HTTP
What if a single MCP server supports both STDIO and HTTP, controlled by a simple switch?This post shows how to build a single MCP server that supports both transports, selected at runtime with a --http switch, using the .NET builder pattern.All server apps in the repo support both STDIO and HTTP via the switch.
15/08/2025
Gpresult Like Tool For Intune
I had to troubleshoot a lot of Intune policies lately and I used a variety of tools for that.At the end, I built my own script to have a result which looks similar to what “GPresult /h” creates for on-premises group polices.The script is inspired by the following article: https://doitpshway.com/get-a-better-intune-policy-report-part-2 by Ondrej Sebela.It follows a similar approach, but without any module dependencies and fewer output options, as my script only generates an HTML page.What started as a script is now a module which might have more functions in the future.Feel free to read any of my other articles here: https://aka.ms/JonasOhmsenBlogsUse parameter “-MDMDiagReportPath” to load MDM report data captured on a remote machine.Simply generate MDM report data, either with the MdmDiagnosticsTool.exe, via the settings app or via Intune.
15/08/2025
Efficient AI Agents Don’t Have to Be Expensive: Here’s Proof
Are AI agents getting too expensive to use at scale?Today’s most impressive AI agents can tackle massive, multi-step tasks using the reasoning power of large language […]The post Efficient AI Agents Don’t Have to Be Expensive: Here’s Proof appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/08/2025
Announcing the Text PII August preview model release in Azure AI language
Azure AI Language is excited to announce a new preview model release for the PII (Personally Identifiable Information) redaction service, which includes support for more entities and languages, addressing customer-sourced scenarios and international use cases.Tier 1 language support for DateOfBirth entity: expanding upon the original English-only support earlier this year, we’ve added support for all Tier 1 languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and DutchAI quality improvements for financial entities, reducing false positives/negatives
15/08/2025
Dynamic Fine-Tuning (DFT): Bridging the Generalization Gap in Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) for LLMs
Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is a standard technique for adapting LLMs to new tasks by training them on expert demonstration datasets.It is valued for its simplicity and ability to develop expert-like behavior quickly, but often underperforms in generalization compared to reinforcement learning (RL).The post Dynamic Fine-Tuning (DFT): Bridging the Generalization Gap in Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) for LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/08/2025
Send signals from Micronaut applications to Azure Monitor through zero-code instrumentation
Add the GraalVM Maven plugin and enable the use of GraalVM Reachability Metadata obtained from the above dependency.Now, run the application using the Tracing Agent and create the necessary configuration files.(1) Azure Monitor (Application Insights)
15/08/2025
Send signals from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
We found information on how to send logs and metrics to Azure Monitor in the Micronaut documentation and guides, but we need to know how to send traces.Their query is, in short, Spring Boot provides Spring Boot Starter and Quarkus provides Quarkus as dependencies, but does Micronaut do the same?3) Enable Azure Monitor Agent in Azure Container Environment to send data using the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP).
15/08/2025
Send logs from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
Add the GraalVM Maven plugin and enable the use of GraalVM Reachability Metadata obtained from the above dependency.Then, run the application using the Tracing Agent to generate the necessary configuration files.We should specify the timing of class initialization (build time or runtime), the command line options for the native-image tool (the same command line options work in Maven/Gradle plugin), and the JVM arguments in the native-image.properties file.
15/08/2025
Send traces from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
Add the GraalVM Maven plugin and enable the use of GraalVM Reachability Metadata obtained from the above dependency.We should specify the timing of class initialization (build time or runtime), the command line options for the native-image tool (the same command line options work in Maven/Gradle plugin), and the JVM arguments in the native-image.properties file.Send metrics from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor |
15/08/2025
Send metrics/traces/logs from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
We found information on how to send logs and metrics to Azure Monitor in the Micronaut documentation and guides, but we need to know how to send traces.Their query is, in short, Spring Boot provides Spring Boot Starter and Quarkus provides Quarkus as dependencies, but does Micronaut do the same?3) Enable Azure Monitor Agent in Azure Container Environment to send data using the OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP).
15/08/2025
Send metrics from Micronaut native image applications to Azure Monitor
Create a Micronaut Application to Collect Metrics and Monitor Them on Azure Monitor Metricshttps://graal.cloud/gdk/gdk-modules/metrics/micronaut-metrics-azure/Add the GraalVM Maven plugin and enable the use of GraalVM Reachability Metadata obtained from the above dependency.Then, run the application using the Tracing Agent to generate the necessary configuration files.
15/08/2025
Guardrails AI Introduces Snowglobe: The Simulation Engine for AI Agents and Chatbots
Guardrails AI has announced the general availability of Snowglobe, a breakthrough simulation engine designed to address one of the thorniest challenges in conversational AI: reliably testing AI Agents/chatbots at scale before they ever reach production.Tackling an Infinite Input Space with Simulation Evaluating AI agents—especially open-ended chatbots—has traditionally required painstaking manual scenario creation.The post Guardrails AI Introduces Snowglobe: The Simulation Engine for AI Agents and Chatbots appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/08/2025
SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc is now generally available in the US Government Virginia region
With Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server, U.S. government agencies and organizations can manage SQL Server instances outside of Azure from the Azure Government portal, in a secure and compliant manner.Arc-enabled SQL Server resources in US government Virginia can be onboarded and viewed in the Azure Government portal just like any Azure resource, giving you a single pane of glass to monitor and organize your SQL Server estate in the Gov cloud.The availability of Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server in the US Gov Virginia region marks an important milestone for hybrid data management in Government. If you’re an Azure Government user managing SQL Server instances, we invite you to try out Arc enabled SQL Server in US Government in Viginia region.
14/08/2025
Unveiling the Next Generation of Table Structure Recognition
While the promise of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) in document understanding is vast, our research in table parsing has revealed a critical insight: for tasks requiring precision in data alignment, such as correctly associating data cells with their respective row and column headers, classical computer vision techniques currently offer superior performance.Therefore, Azure Document Intelligence (DI) and Content Understanding (CU) leverages an even more robust and proven computer vision algorithms to ensure the foundational accuracy and consistency that enterprises demand.Figure 1: Vision LLMs struggle to accurately recognize table structure, even in simple tables.
14/08/2025
Google AI Introduces Gemma 3 270M: A Compact Model for Hyper-Efficient, Task-Specific Fine-Tuning
Google AI has expanded the Gemma family with the introduction of Gemma 3 270M, a lean, 270-million-parameter foundation model built explicitly for efficient, task-specific fine-tuning.This model demonstrates robust instruction-following and advanced text structuring capabilities “out of the box,” meaning it’s ready for immediate deployment and customization with minimal additional training.The post Google AI Introduces Gemma 3 270M: A Compact Model for Hyper-Efficient, Task-Specific Fine-Tuning appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/08/2025
Update To API Management Workspaces Breaking Changes: Built-in Gateway & Tiers Support
If your API Management service uses preview workspaces on the built-in gateway and meets the tier-based limits below, those workspaces will continue to function as-is and will automatically transition to general availability once built-in gateway support is fully announced.We introduced the requirement for workspace gateways to improve reliability and scalability in large, federated API environments.In addition to workspaces support on the built-in gateway described in the section above, Premium and Premium v2 services will continue to support deploying workspaces with workspace gateways.
14/08/2025
The new Planner for the web is now available to customers in GCC High
We are thrilled to share that we have started rolling out the new Microsoft Planner for the web to customers in GCC High! The ability to access all your plans, projects and to do lists in a single placeExperiencing premium capabilities in the new Planner for the web
14/08/2025
The new Planner web is now available to customers in GCC High
We are thrilled to share that we have started rolling out the new Microsoft Planner for the web to customers in GCC High! The ability to access all your plans, projects and to do lists in a single placeExperiencing premium capabilities in the new Planner for the web
14/08/2025
Arc-enabled SQL Server is now generally available in the US Government Virginia region
With Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server, U.S. government agencies and organizations can manage SQL Server instances outside of Azure from the Azure Government portal, in a secure and compliant manner.Arc-enabled SQL Server resources in US government Virginia can be onboarded and viewed in the Azure Government portal just like any Azure resource, giving you a single pane of glass to monitor and organize your SQL Server estate in the Gov cloud.The availability of Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server in the US Gov Virginia region marks an important milestone for hybrid data management in Government. If you’re an Azure Government user managing SQL Server instances, we invite you to try out Arc enabled SQL Server in US Government in Viginia region.
14/08/2025
Expanding Global Reach and Enhancing Observability with Oracle Database@Azure
Oracle Database@Azure expands to Germany North – now available in 23 regions worldwide Oracle Database@Azure is now available in 23 Azure regions globally – the most of any hyperscaler.Exadata customers using Oracle Database@Azure now have more ways to monitor and manage their environment with enhanced observability for Exadata logs and events with Azure Monitor and Microsoft Sentinel.
14/08/2025
Expanding Global Reach and Enhanced Observability with Oracle Database@Azure
Oracle Database@Azure expands to Germany North – now available in 23 regions worldwide Oracle Database@Azure is now available in 23 Azure regions globally – the most of any hyperscaler.Exadata customers using Oracle Database@Azure now have more ways to monitor and manage their environment with enhanced observability for Exadata logs and events with Azure Monitor and Microsoft Sentinel.
14/08/2025
Investigating M365 Copilot Activity with Sentinel & Defender XDR
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI is a Microsoft Purview capability designed to help organizations discover, secure, and apply compliance controls for AI usage across your enterprise.In this blog, we will explore how Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR can help security teams operationalize DSPM for AI.You can perform Advanced Hunting of Microsoft 365 Copilot data through CloudAppEvents.
14/08/2025
Lower costs and boost flexibility with Azure Files provisioned v2
To bring this flexibility to your hands, we introduced the provisioned v2 model for the HDD (standard) media tier in 2024.Today, we are excited to announce that we're extending the provisioned v2 model to the SSD (premium) media tier.Provisioned v2 is designed to give you more control, better performance alignment, and significant cost savings across a wide range of customer scenarios - by decoupling performance from capacity, lowering the minimum share size to 32 GiB, and increasing the maximum share size to 256 TiB.
14/08/2025
Unlocking Flexibility with Azure Files Provisioned V2
In this episode of E2E:10-Minute Drill, host Pierre Roman sits down with Will Gries, Principal PM in Azure Storage, to explore the newly released Azure Files Provisioned V2 billing model.This model introduces a game-changing approach to cloud file storage by allowing users to provision storage, IOPS, and throughput independently—a major leap forward in flexibility and cost optimization.High Performance on Demand: Each file share can now scale up to 50,000 IOPS and 5 GiB/sec throughput, and support up to 256 TiB of data in a single share.
14/08/2025
Meta AI Just Released DINOv3: A State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Model Trained with Self-Supervised Learning, Generating High-Resolution Image Features
Meta AI has just released DINOv3, a breakthrough self-supervised computer vision model that sets new standards for versatility and accuracy across dense prediction tasks, all without the need for labeled data.DINOv3 employs self-supervised learning (SSL) at an unprecedented scale, training on 1.7 billion images with a 7 billion parameter architecture.For the first time, […]
14/08/2025
Announcing MSGraph Provider Public Preview and the Microsoft Terraform VSCode Extension
We are thrilled to announce two exciting developments in the Microsoft ecosystem for Terraform infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practitioners: the public preview of the Terraform Microsoft Graph (MSGraph) provider and the release of the Microsoft Terraform Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extension.The new official Microsoft Terraform extension for Visual Studio Code consolidates AzureRM, AzAPI, and MSGraph VSCode support into a single powerful extension.The extension supports exporting Azure resources as Terraform code, as well as IntelliSense, syntax highlighting, and code sample generation.
14/08/2025
Join us October 8th for the 3rd Annual OneDrive Digital Event!
We’re thrilled to announce “Copilot + OneDrive — Intelligence in every click, inspiration in every memory” our upcoming digital event on October 8th, 2025!Following up on last year’s successful event, our third-annual OneDrive event will shine the light on OneDrive’s latest advancements in AI – showing how every click can be smarter and every memory more inspiring.The team will demonstrate how Copilot turns your files from static content into actionable insights – improving how you share and collaborate on documents.🗣️After the showcase, stick around for a live chat-based Q&A session.
14/08/2025
New microphone volume indicator in Teams
I’m excited to let you know about a new feature in Microsoft Teams that alerts you to your microphone’s volume during meetings.New microphone volume indicator in TeamsThe new microphone volume indicator for Microsoft Teams on Windows and Mac provides you with real-time visual feedback on your audio levels, minimizing interruptions and enhancing your confidence and effectiveness in meetings.
14/08/2025
How Microsoft Defender Experts uses AI to cut through the noise
AI-based incident classification allows us to filter noise up front without compromising on detecting real threats.Instead, our AI is powered by insights from hundreds of thousands of real investigations conducted by Defender Experts security analysts.If you're a security leader struggling with alert overload, Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, Microsoft’s MXDR (managed extended detection and response) service, can deliver around the clock, expert-led protection.
14/08/2025
Data, AI, and Opportunity: Why Microsoft Partners Should Attend the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025
The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) is happening September 15–18, 2025, at the Austria Center in beautiful Vienna. If you're a Microsoft partner, this is a key opportunity to participate in one of the most important events in data and AI strategy.Whether you're leading solution execution or developing apps, Fabric presents a powerful unified data platform for AI transformation—and this conference is where you'll learn how to capitalize on it.Purchase a 4-day pass including our Partner Day on September 15 to learn how Microsoft partners play a central role in bringing Fabric to life for our customers, and get access to the use cases, tools, and co-sell opportunities you need to succeed.
14/08/2025
New AI capabilities available for Government environments
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of new AI-powered capabilities for our U.S. Government cloud customers, including Microsoft 365 Copilot for the Office 365 Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 5 (IL5) environment and Copilot Studio agent builder for Office 365 Government Community Cloud (GCC) environment.M365 Copilot now generally available in Office 365 DoD (IL5) environmentStarting this month, with purchase of the M365 Copilot licenses, users in the Office 365 DoD (IL5) environment will now have access to integrated Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences.
14/08/2025
Closing the loop: Interactive write-back from Power BI to Azure Databricks
We're excited to announce that the Azure Databricks connector for Power Platform is now Generally Available.A key functionality unlocked by this connector is the ability to write data back from Power BI to Azure Databricks.With this connector, users can now read from and write to Azure Databricks data warehouses in real time, all from within familiar interfaces — no custom connectors, no data duplication, and no loss of governance.
14/08/2025
Improved margins in OneNote for Android and iOS
I’m excited to share that we’ve addressed a long-standing formatting request for mobile users: Pages created on Android and iOS now have cleaner, more consistent margins when viewed in OneNote on Windows, for Mac, and for the web.Improved margins in OneNote for Android and iOSThe mobile margin fix is available to OneNote users running:
14/08/2025
7 Matplotlib Tricks to Better Visualize Your Machine Learning Models
Visualizing model performance is an essential piece of the machine learning workflow puzzle.
14/08/2025
Viva Engage Public Content is Now Available in Microsoft 365 Copilot
So, we’ve made public information from across Viva Engage available in Microsoft 365 Copilot — starting with Q&A and now including discussion posts.This includes public discussion posts from public communities, events, Answers and Storylines.Try out some of these prompts in Copilot:
14/08/2025
Leaving the key under the doormat: How Microsoft Defender uses AI to spot exposed credentials
Microsoft Defender can now help eliminate this vulnerability with a new, AI-powered posture alert that uses layers of intelligence to spot exposed credentials.Understanding free text fields in identity systems:Within identity systems like Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft Entra ID, free text fields are customizable attributes that allow administrators to store unstructured or semi-structured data.
14/08/2025
What's new in OneNote for EDU - Back to School 2025
New Microsoft 365 LTI 1.3 integration – Streamlined LMS access to Class Notebook, Assignments, Reflect, and more1. Enable the Class Notebook Toolbar natively in OneNote on Windows and for MacLastly, a call to action for passionate educators: if you love getting early access to new features or want to provide direct feedback to the OneNote and Class Notebook team, consider joining the Education Insiders Program (EIP).
14/08/2025
Model Mondays S2E9: Models for AI Agents
GPT-5 and GPT-OSS Models Now in Azure AI Foundry: Azure AI Foundry now supports OpenAI’s GPT-5 lineup (including GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, and GPT-5 Nano) and the new open-weight GPT-OSS models (120B, 20B).That's why we have the Azure AI Developer Community.I'm Sharda, a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador interested in cloud and AI.
14/08/2025
Red-teaming a RAG app with the Azure AI Evaluation SDK
Fortunately, Microsoft released an automated Red Teaming agent, part of the azure-ai-evaluations Python package.The agent uses an adversarial LLM, housed safely inside an Azure AI Foundry project such that it can't be used for other purposes, in order to generate unsafe questions across various categories.My RAG-on-PostgreSQL sample application answers questions about products from a database representing a fictional outdoors store.