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5 AI Model Architectures Every AI Engineer Should Know
Behind the scenes, a whole family of specialized architectures is quietly transforming how machines see, plan, act, segment, represent concepts, and even run efficiently on small devices.Each of these models solves a different part of the intelligence puzzle, and together […]The post 5 AI Model Architectures Every AI Engineer Should Know appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17 hours ago
Nanbeige4-3B-Thinking: How a 23T Token Pipeline Pushes 3B Models Past 30B Class Reasoning
Can a 3B model deliver 30B class reasoning by fixing the training recipe instead of scaling parameters?Nanbeige LLM Lab at Boss Zhipin has released Nanbeige4-3B, a 3B parameter small language model family trained with an unusually heavy emphasis on data quality, curriculum scheduling, distillation, and reinforcement learning.The research team ships 2 primary checkpoints, […]
18 hours ago
Troubleshooting Replication Performance Issues
If you notice high writer wait times in the Distribution Agent performance statistics, you should investigate the performance of the Distribution Agent execution against the distribution server and database.If you notice high reader wait times in the Distribution Agent performance statistics, you should investigate the performance of the Distribution Agent execution against the subscriber server and database.Use the profiler trace tool to investigate the performance of the execution of the replication stored procedures.
12/12/2025
Announcing Windows Admin Center for Arm-based Copilot+ PCs
Great news for IT pros managing the next generation of Windows devices!Windows Admin Center now supports Arm-based Copilot+ PCs, bringing the powerful, browser-based management experience you rely on to Microsoft's most advanced AI-powered devices.Copilot+ PCs are next-generation Windows devices designed with built-in AI capabilities, delivering faster performance, enhanced productivity, and intelligent experiences powered by Windows and Microsoft Copilot.
12/12/2025
How to Design a Fully Local Agentic Storytelling Pipeline Using Griptape Workflows, Hugging Face Models, and Modular Creative Task Orchestration
In this tutorial, we build a fully local, API-free agentic storytelling system using Griptape and a lightweight Hugging Face model.We walk through creating an agent with tool-use abilities, generating a fictional world, designing characters, and orchestrating a multi-stage workflow that produces a coherent short story.By dividing the implementation into modular snippets, we can […]
12/12/2025
Copilot Your Holidays: Episode 3 - Focus Time, Year-End Reviews, and Travel Planning!
In Episode 3 of our Copilot Your Holidays series, Samhita, Maria, and Saurabh dive into practical ways to reclaim your time—clearing your calendar, crafting thoughtful performance reviews, and even planning the perfect moment to head to the airport.Check my calendar and list 6–8 open 30–45-minute slots over the next 10 business days, between 9 AM and 4 PM in my time zone, so I can prepare for my end of year review.Share your favorite Copilot-generated holiday ideas with us in the comments!
12/12/2025
Title Plan Update – December 12, 2025
December 12, 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.
12/12/2025
Verified skills, real impact: Microsoft Credentials help you get AI-ready
AI has rapidly evolved from trendy buzzword to critical business tool.In The No. 1 Skill Employers Want In 2025 And Most Job Seekers Don’t List It, Forbes points out that 81% of hiring managers prioritize AI skills.EPAM Systems, a global leader in digital engineering, has seen firsthand how Microsoft Credentials strengthen AI readiness and improve project results.
12/12/2025
How to Access ChatGPT‑5.2 in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
Microsoft has started rolling out OpenAI’s GPT‑5.2 into Microsoft 365 Copilot—including Copilot Chat—so you can choose the newest model directly from the model selector. GPT‑5.2 comes in two strengths: an efficient, everyday option (“Instant”) and a deeper reasoning option (“Thinking”), which is exactly why Microsoft also gives you Quick Response and Think Deeper styles for how much “thinking time” Copilot should spend. GPT‑5.2 is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot via the model selector, which means you can explicitly pick it for a chat when you want the newest capabilities. Microsoft describes GPT‑5.2 as combining GPT‑5.2 Thinking (best for complex problems and strategic insights) and GPT‑5.2 Instant (efficient for everyday writing, translation, and skill-building). OpenAI also positions GPT‑5.2 as improved for professional work—like creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, and handling complex multi-step projects—especially when you select the deeper “Thinking” variant. Microsoft’s framing is simple: GPT‑5.2 becomes more powerful “at work” because Copilot applies it inside Microsoft 365, where it can support insights and planning across common productivity workflows (as your licensing and tenant configuration allow). And because GPT‑5.2 is built to be stronger on long context and complex professional tasks, you can reach for “Think Deeper” when you want higher-quality reasoning—and use “Quick Response” to stay fast for everyday work.
12/12/2025
Get Ready, Arlington: M365 Copilot Prompt-a-thon Is Coming January 21
The future of productivity is here—and we’re bringing it straight to the DMV.On Wednesday, January 21, 2026, Microsoft experts will be on-site in Arlington, Virginia, to host an immersive, hands-on Microsoft 365 Copilot Prompt‑a‑thon designed to help you unlock the full power of modern AI in your everyday work.This in-person workshop focuses on building confidence, creativity, and fluency with Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.The Microsoft 365 Copilot Prompt‑a‑thon is more than a workshop.
12/12/2025
Level Up Your Productivity: Join Our 2026 Copilot in Action Series this January and February
Create Your First Agent Using Agent Builder (Copilot Studio Light)Learn how to ground your agent in your own M365 data and extend Copilot’s value even further.Create an Agent for M365 Copilot Using Microsoft Copilot Studio
12/12/2025
Key Considerations for Modernizing and Migrating Custom Applications to Azure
A detailed understanding of the existing application is the foundation of a successful migration.The Azure Migration Guide helps map applications to the right strategy.During database modernization, Azure SQL and Cosmos DB use built-in intelligence to index data, tune queries, detect anomalies, and improve performance autonomously.Azure SQL Intelligent Performance: Automatic Tuning Overview - Azure SQL & SQL database in Fabric |
12/12/2025
AI Upskilling Framework Level 3 Building
The Global AI Community is excited to bring you the latest updates on AI Upskilling Framework Level 3 Building, straight from Microsoft Ignite!Next, we introduce the Microsoft Agentic Framework (MAF), comparing traditional workflows with agentic workflows and addressing common issues.To bring these concepts to life, we showcase two new demos: a Claims Intake Workflow and a Claims Fraud Detection Workflow, highlighting how agentic design transforms real-world processes.
12/12/2025
Sales agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Evaluation Results – Technical Report
Today, we’re announcing the Microsoft Sales Bench—a new collection of evaluation benchmarks designed to assess the performance of AI-powered sales agents across real-world scenarios.This technical deep dive outlines how Sales agent is built, how it reasons over enterprise CRM and work data, and how we evaluated its accuracy, completeness, relevance, and usefulness across end-to-end sales workflows.To evaluate the Sales agent in a way that reflects how real sellers work, we built a full Dynamics 365 Sales environment populated with synthetically generated, but realistic CRM data.
12/12/2025
Sales agent - the Copilot agent that speaks sales
Today, we are excited to announce that the public preview of Sales agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot is now available.Sales agent brings insights from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, emails, meetings, enterprise content stores and other sales applications, into the flow of work.Today, we’re announcing the Microsoft Sales Bench—a new collection of evaluation benchmarks designed to assess the performance of AI-powered sales agents across real-world scenarios.
12/12/2025
Stop Re‑typing: Use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to Turn Image Snapshots into Excel Tables—Fast
A faster path now exists across Microsoft 365: take a quick image snapshot, upload it to Copilot Chat, and ask it to extract the data into a structured table and create a ready‑to‑use Excel file.This workflow combines Copilot’s multimodal understanding of images with Excel’s “Data from Picture” capabilities—dramatically cutting the time you spend wrangling non‑Excel sources. In Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams, or the Microsoft 365 app, open Copilot Chat, choose Add an image (or Upload from phone via QR if available), and insert your screenshot.
12/12/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: December 5, 2025
Learn about 395 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
12/12/2025
Configure a log analytics workspace to collect Window Server Event log, IIS and performance data.
Configuring Azure Monitor with Log Analytics for IIS ServersAzure Monitor combined with Log Analytics provides centralized telemetry collection for performance metrics, event logs, and application logs from Windows-based workloads.This guide demonstrates how to configure data collection from IIS servers using Data Collection Rules (DCRs).
12/12/2025
Ep 30 | How the AvePoint-IAMCP Partnership Empowers Microsoft Partners for AI-Driven Success
Welcome to a behind-the-scenes look at the latest episode of Profiles in Partnership, entitled “Scaling Smarter: AI, Talent, and Opportunity in the Microsoft Partner Ecosystem,” where innovation, community, and growth converge to shape the future of the Microsoft partner ecosystem.Enter the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP).Dux Raymond Sy's journey is a master class in adaptability.
12/12/2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025 AI announcements: What software developers need to know
Igniting what’s next: What software development companies need to know about Microsoft’s AI announcements at Ignite 2025The AI landscape took a major leap forward at Microsoft Ignite 2025, and for software development companies and digital natives, the announcements represent a massive opportunity: faster innovation, simplified agent development, access to enterprise‑ready AI platforms, and a dramatically expanded ecosystem to build on.Ignite 2025 formally unveiled Microsoft Foundry, our unified platform for building, governing, and scaling intelligent agents.
11/12/2025
Private Preview: Azure Managed Prometheus on VM / VMSS
Today we are excited to announce the private preview of Azure Managed Prometheus support for virtual machines (VM) and virtual machine scale sets (VMSS).Until now, Managed Prometheus on Azure was primarily targeted at containerized workloads — e.g. Kubernetes (AKS) or Azure Arc–enabled clusters.With this preview, you can now extend Prometheus-style monitoring to your IaaS workloads running on VMs/VMSS, giving you unified, scalable, resilient metric collection and observability across both containers and traditional compute —including full support for GPU and InfiniBand (IB) metric collection for HPC scenarios.
11/12/2025
Congratulations to Nicole Dezen on being named a CRN 2025 Woman of the Year in the Vendor/Distributor category!
The third annual CRN Women of the Year Awards spotlight the incredible achievements of women leaders and rising stars in the IT channel, as well as the companies and allies who support their work.These awards celebrate the exceptional dedication and leadership of women and their advocates who have make significant impacts promoting innovation and equity in the technology industry. We’re proud to share that Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President, Global Channel Partner Sales at Microsoft, has been named a CRN 2025 Woman of the Year in the Vendor/Distributor category.
11/12/2025
OpenAI Introduces GPT 5.2: A Long Context Workhorse For Agents, Coding And Knowledge Work
OpenAI has just introduced GPT-5.2, its most advanced frontier model for professional work and long running agents, and is rolling it out across ChatGPT and the API.GPT-5.2 is a family of three variants.In ChatGPT, users see ChatGPT-5.2 Instant, Thinking and Pro.
11/12/2025
Skilling snack: AI on Windows Copilot+ PCs
You can be a lot more productive with AI on Copilot+ PCs, the newest type of Windows PCs.In the past year, we’ve added several new features and capabilities designed to boost productivity and inclusivity.See how Copilot+ PCs evolved with AI powered features like Click to Do, Recall, improved Windows search, and Fluid dictation (in preview).
11/12/2025
DataDay 2025 Bogotá: Connecting Ideas, Creating Opportunities
Bogotá became the epicenter of data innovation during DataDay 2025, a hybrid event that brought together professionals, enthusiasts, and industry leaders from across Latin America.Throughout the year, virtual sessions covered topics such as KPI design, intelligent Excel functions, and automation with AI—setting the stage for the grand finale: a three-day in-person experience at Microsoft’s Bogotá offices on November 20, 21, and 24.This year’s edition was even more special as Microsoft Colombia’s office in Bogotá opened its doors for the event for the first time.
11/12/2025
Fine-tuning at Ignite 2025: new models, new tools, new experience
At Ignite 2025, we saw how Docusign fine-tuned models that powered their document management system to achieve major gains: more than 50% cost reduction per document, 2x faster inference time, and significant improvements in accuracy.At Ignite, we launched several new features in Microsoft Foundry that make fine‑tuning easier, more scalable, and more impactful than ever with the goal of making agents unstoppable in the real world:To make it easier than ever to get started, we’re introducing Developer Training tier – providing users with a 50% discount when they choose to run workloads on pre-emptible capacity.
11/12/2025
CopilotKit v1.50 Brings AG-UI Agents Directly Into Your App With the New useAgent Hook
Agent frameworks are now good at reasoning and tools, but most teams still write custom code to turn agent graphs into robust user interfaces with shared state, streaming output and interrupts.It is an open source framework for building AI copilots and in-app agents directly in your app, with real […]The post CopilotKit v1.50 Brings AG-UI Agents Directly Into Your App With the New useAgent Hook appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/12/2025
Write formulas with natural language using Copilot in Excel
Now, we’re introducing an additional on-grid Copilot tool that takes it a step further: With this new capability, you can simply describe what you need, and Copilot will create the formula for you.In Excel for the Web, select the cell in which you want to enter a formula.This feature is currently rolling out to Excel for Web users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
11/12/2025
What's new in Microsoft Intune: December 2025
Following Microsoft Ignite 2025, I caught up with colleagues and Intune MVPs who made the trip to San Francisco.Throughout 2025, the Intune engineering team has shipped capabilities for cross-platform support, security, and more that has helped to remove many areas of friction from day-to-day operations.November's updates deliver improvements across three areas: app management, privacy controls, and policy targeting.
11/12/2025
Transforming Data migration using Azure Copilot
With the new “Storage Migration Solutions Advisor” capability in Azure Copilot, Microsoft is transforming this experience into a conversational, AI-driven workflow that accelerates decision-making and reduces operational friction.The Storage Migration Solutions Advisor feature introduces:Start using Azure Copilot’s Storage Migration Solutions Advisor today and experience AI-driven efficiency for your cloud transformation.
11/12/2025
System Center 2025 Update Rollup 1 and more
We are excited to announce that System Center 2025 Update Rollup 1 (UR1) is now generally available!In addition to the 2025 Update Rollup, we continue to invest in System Center 2022 with targeted hotfixes and compliance updates to ensure all customers benefit from the latest security, language, and platform improvements:Update Rollup 1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2025 will be released in upcoming months.
11/12/2025
Azure Sphere OS version 25.12 is now available for evaluation
Azure Sphere OS version 25.12 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed.During this time, please verify that your applications and devices operate properly with both the 25.12, and subsequent 26.02 release, before it is deployed broadly to devices in the Retail feed. The 25.12 OS Retail Eval release includes significant underlying build system updates.
11/12/2025
Partner Blog | Preparing for the next stage of partner skilling in 2026
This year, partners made skilling a deliberate priority.Our November skilling update outlined the latest resources, bootcamps, and learning paths available to partners.As we look ahead to 2026, this moment is about turning those investments into a scalable skilling foundation that supports consistent delivery, drives customer outcomes, and positions your organization to grow as demand for AI, cloud, security, and data solutions continues to accelerate.
11/12/2025
The Machine Learning Divide: Marktechpost’s Latest ML Global Impact Report Reveals Geographic Asymmetry Between ML Tool Origins and Research Adoption
Los Angeles, December 11, 2025 — Marktechpost has released ML Global Impact Report 2025 (AIResearchTrends.com).This educational report’s analysis includes over 5,000 articles from more than 125 countries, all published within the Nature family of journals between January 1 and September 30, 2025.The post The Machine Learning Divide: Marktechpost’s Latest ML Global Impact Report Reveals Geographic Asymmetry Between ML Tool Origins and Research Adoption appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/12/2025
Technology that Gives Time Back to Care
For nonprofits like World Vision Germany and Diakonisches Werk Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe, embracing modern technology wasn’t about going digital—it was about giving people help faster, building trust deeper, and freeing teams to focus on what truly matters: human connection. When an earthquake struck Myanmar, World Vision Germany launched an emergency appeal within hours—because technology cleared the path for action.Please read the full story on Microsoft for Nonprofits LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/driving-impact-faster-aid-smarter-fundraising-3udke
11/12/2025
From Oracle to Azure: How Quadrant Technologies accelerates migrations
Streamlining migrations with Azure MigrateAs part of our on-premises database migration initiatives, we rely on Azure Migrate to seamlessly migrate a wide range of structured databases (including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle) from on-premises environments to Azure IaaS and PaaS.Since implementing Azure Migrate, which now facilitates discovery and assessment for on-premises PostgreSQL workloads, we’ve accelerated deployment by 75% compared to traditional migration methods.
11/12/2025
Introducing Cohere Rerank 4.0 in Microsoft Foundry
These new retrieval models deliver state-of-the-art accuracy, multilingual coverage across 100+ languages, and breakthrough performance for enterprise search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.With Rerank 4.0, customers can dramatically improve the quality of search, reduce hallucinations in RAG applications, and strengthen the reasoning capabilities of their AI agents, all with just a few lines of code.The models achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in 10 of the world’s most important business languages, including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, making them exceptionally well suited for global organizations with multilingual knowledge bases, compliance archives, or international operations.
11/12/2025
Preserving strategic value: Microsoft 365 Archive + Preservica Active Digital Preservation
In the AI era, long-term content is no longer just a compliance overhead – it’s a strategic asset.From completed project sites in SharePoint to legacy records, organizations are increasingly required to retain critical, high-value content for decades to meet regulatory, legal, and operational needs, and for unlocking insights through AI.Microsoft 365 Archive enables organizations to archive inactive SharePoint sites into low-cost, secure storage - preserving site structure and content for full restoration.
11/12/2025
Accelerate your sales growth with resale enabled offers (REO) through guidance in App Advisor
It provides tailored guidance to help you understand resale enabled offers (REO) and determine whether this pathway to near global scale is right for your marketplace strategy.Grow globally with resale enabled offers Resale enabled offers (REO) open the channel-led marketplace opportunity for near-global scale.
11/12/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Sentinel: December 2025
Take advantage of the latest innovations in Microsoft Sentinel SIEM and platform by migrating from the Azure to Defender experience.At Ignite, Microsoft announced a streamlined Sentinel SIEM migration experience, designed to simplify transitions from Splunk and QRadar (coming soon).Increase visibility with direct data lake ingestion – At Ignite we announced Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) data can now flow directly into the Sentinel data lake, with table settings managed in the Defender portal.
11/12/2025
Optimizing Exchange Online PowerShell
This post takes a holistic approach to optimizing Exchange Online management and automation in four parts:Best practices specific to the Exchange Online PowerShell moduleThe Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK is the future of Microsoft 365 automation.
11/12/2025
Breaking down security silos: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Expands into the Defender Portal
That world is no longer a dream: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) is now integrated into Defender XDR in public preview.It’s a strategic leap forward toward a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that scales with your business.With Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s deep integration into the unified portal, we eliminate security silos and bring a modern, streamlined experience that is more intuitive and purpose-built for today’s security teams, while delivering a single pane of glass for hybrid and multi-cloud security.
11/12/2025
Data Migration Strategies for Large-Scale Sybase to SQL Migrations Using SSMA, SSIS and ADF- Part 1
Our recent project for migrating data from Sybase ASE to MSSQL set out to illuminate this process, using tools like Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA), Microsoft SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) packages, and Azure Data Factory (ADF). Set the IsSorted property of a component in the output data flow upstream to True.ADO .NET Source: When retrieving data from a view using an OLE DB data source, choose SQL command as the data access mode and provide a SELECT statement.
11/12/2025
Data Migration Strategies for Large-Scale Sybase to SQL Migrations Using SSMA, SSIS and ADF- Part 2
Our recent project for migrating data from Sybase ASE to MSSQL set out to illuminate this process, using tools like Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA), Microsoft SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) packages, and Azure Data Factory (ADF). Part 2 covers the Azure Data Factory (ADF), tests results, performance improvement guidelines and conclusion.SSMA, SSIS, and ADF each offer unique strengths for migrating Sybase ASE to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance.
11/12/2025
SqlError Number: 3961 Message: Snapshot isolation transaction failed in database 'DatabaseName'
This error indicates a snapshot isolation conflict caused by concurrent schema changes during Azure SQL Data Sync operations.Snapshot isolation does not version metadata, so concurrent schema changes break consistency and SQL Server abort the transaction.Message: Snapshot isolation transaction failed because metadata changed during the transaction.
11/12/2025
Backup immutability for short-term retention backup
Short-Term Retention (PITR) backups (1–35 days) do not support immutability.Immutability is available only for Long-Term Retention (LTR) backups in Azure SQL Database.Summary:You cannot configure immutability for short-term retention backups in Azure SQL Database today.
11/12/2025
Capacity Planning with Azure Container Apps Workload Profiles
Azure Container Apps (ACA) simplifies container orchestration, but capacity planning often confuses developers.This guide pairs official ACA guidance with practical examples to demystify workload profiles, autoscaling, and resource modelling.Understanding Workload Profiles in Azure Container Apps
11/12/2025
Deploy and configure an Azure Application Gateway for load balancing and website protection.
Azure Application Gateway provides layer 7 load balancing with integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities, enabling traffic distribution across backend servers while protecting against common web exploits like SQL injection and DDoS attacks.This guide walks through deploying an Application Gateway to front-end two Windows Server IIS instances in an availability set.The first step you need to take is to prepare your Azure network infrastructure for Azure Application Gateway deployment.
11/12/2025
Announcing Support for S2D Campus Cluster on Windows Server 2025
Applies to: Windows Server 2025 Failover Clustering with the 2025-12 Security Update (KB5072033) (26100.7462) applied on each Failover Cluster node.Included in the 2025-12 Security Update (KB5072033) (26100.7462) for Windows Server 2025 is the Rack Level Nested Mirror (RLNM) for S2D, which improves resiliency for the S2D Campus Cluster by keeping the same number of copies in each rack – one copy in each rack for a two-copy volume, and two copies per rack for a four copy volume.What are the support requirements for the S2D Campus Cluster on Windows Server 2025?
11/12/2025
Windows Admin Center version 2511 is now generally available!
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Windows Admin Center version 2511!Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode and Windows Admin Center 2511 are distinct installations. This version of Windows Admin Center cannot be registered in Azure Government sovereign cloud.
11/12/2025
FY26 Q2 Update: What's new in certified software designations
Starting on January 1, 2026, all partners will need to have a Solutions Partner* with certified software** designation to continue accessing legacy Azure IP co-sell benefits—including partner-reported Azure consumed revenue (PRACR), partner-led incentives, go-to-market benefits, and prioritized sales engagement.Any net-new partner who wants to access benefits like PRACR and Azure IP co-sell support will need to have a certified software designation. Starting January 1, 2026: Partners will need to have a certified software designation to continue accessing these benefits, so if you currently have Azure IP co-sell top tier benefits, you may already be eligible to pursue a certified software designation.
10/12/2025
Introducing resiliency improvements with Microsoft Hosted Network
To meet this requirement, we are introducing a new region group location tier that will sit between the current geography and region locations.Besides Microsoft Hosted Network (MHN) enhancements, we are introducing two new service capabilities for newly created provisioning policies that will apply to Cloud PCs deployed to either the geography or region group tiers without requiring manual intervention.To maximize Cloud PC resiliency, Windows 365 now distributes deployments across all healthy regions within a geography or region group when selected.
10/12/2025
News to Know – Volume 2, Edition 10, December 2025
In January 2026, we’re introducing enhancements to the focus area experience in Glint to improve how organizations track and act on employee feedback.Customers are invited to preview support for custom PPT templates with the new Export report to PPT option.Be among the first to experience a new era of continuous engagement and actionable feedback with the Glint Employee Feedback Agent.
10/12/2025
Course Retirement Announcement: AI-3024
AI-3024: Design a dream destination with AIRetirement date: January 30, 2026Kindly note: This blog is intended solely for informational purposes.
10/12/2025
How Microsoft Agent 365 works
-Importantly, because it runs on the Agent 365 control plane, it works according to your organization’s security and compliance requirements.-The Agent 365 control plane in the Microsoft 365 admin center provides an overview of all agents in your organization, with a breakdown by publisher and platform.And while today I focused on the experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center, the Agent 365 control plane extends to role-specific views for agents in Microsoft Entra for agent identity and access management, Microsoft Purview for data security protections.
10/12/2025
n8n and Foundry IQ for smarter agents and RAG workflows
n8n now natively supports Azure AI Search as a verified vector store, enabling you to store, retrieve, and query embeddings directly in your automation workflows.This integration leverages the same Azure AI Search capabilities that power Microsoft Foundry IQ, with agentic retrieval features coming soon to n8n.Azure AI Search combines vector similarity, keyword search, and semantic reranking into a single query, delivering better answer quality than vector-only approaches.
10/12/2025
Don’t miss Building Agents with Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Foundry Agent Service!
Our dynamic four-part webinar series, Agentic AI + Copilot Partner Skilling Accelerator, empowers you to harness the Microsoft AI ecosystem to unlock new revenue streams and enhance customer success.Don't miss the final session in the series, Building Agents with Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, where you'll learn how to design and deploy intelligent agents with Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, including multi-agent architectures and key protocols such as A2A and MCP.The live virtual event is scheduled for December 15, 2025.
10/12/2025
Using ExcludeFromAllHolds to Remove Holds from Inactive Mailboxes
When managing inactive mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange Online, administrators often need to remove holds to allow for permanent deletion while maintaining compliance requirements.The ExcludeFromAllHolds parameter provides an enhanced and comprehensive solution for removing multiple types of holds from inactive mailboxes in a single operation.The ExcludeFromAllHolds parameter is a cmdlet switch that removes all applicable holds from inactive mailboxes except for eDiscovery holds, litigation hold, and restrictive retention policies.
10/12/2025
Why voice matters in clinical environments
In the demo from the video, I'm pretending to be a clinical manager who uses voice with Copilot to work through a backlog of operational tasks ahead of the next clinic day.In the video, I also showcase a powerful next step: using Copilot’s App Builder to create a no-code tool for real-time inventory management.The app connects to a SharePoint list and allows clinicians to:Microsoft has also announced Dragon Copilot, bringing together Dragon Medical One and DAX Copilot into a unified clinical voice assistant.
10/12/2025
Unlocking Efficient and Secure AI for Android with Foundry Local
The ability to run advanced AI models directly on smartphones is transforming the mobile landscape. Foundry Local for Android simplifies the integration of generative AI models, allowing teams to deliver sophisticated, secure, and low-latency AI experiences natively on mobile devices.This post highlights Foundry Local for Android as a compelling solution for Android developers, helping them efficiently build and deploy powerful on-device AI capabilities within their applications.
10/12/2025
Native macOS screen sharing in Teams meetings
Native macOS screen sharing in Teams meetingsThis new opt-in feature allows you to share your screen or window directly from macOS during Teams meetings.To use this feature, you must be a member of the Teams Public Preview or Microsoft 365 Targeted release and use the Teams client for Mac.
10/12/2025
Cloud Champion Italia – Tutte le sessioni di FY26
Cloud Champion è la piattaforma di riferimento gratuita per i partner italiani che desiderano ampliare le proprie competenze e accelerare la crescita del business.In questa sessione approfondiremo i tip&tricks su Partner Center, le modalità di creazione delle offerte private e risponderemo alle domande più frequenti (F.A.Q.) per aiutarti a operare con maggiore efficacia e autonomia.In questo webinar di 30 minuti vedremo le ultime novità in casa Microsoft, dai modelli appena rilasciati alle nuove funzionalità e agli aggiornamenti su Azure, per ritrovare facilmente il filo del discorso e guardare avanti.
10/12/2025
What’s new in Microsoft Entra – November 2025
New capabilities for managing, governing, and protecting agents with the public preview of Microsoft Entra Agent ID, part of the new Agent 365 control plane for agents;This article shares security improvements and innovations across Microsoft Entra from October and November 2025, organized by product. Starting February 2026, we'll introduce Jailbreak/Root detection for Microsoft Entra credentials in the Authenticator app.
10/12/2025
Five Ways to Implement the Great Copilot Journey
What is the Great Copilot Journey?The Great Copilot Journey is a structured, habit-building program that delivers daily or weekly prompts to help users practice and explore Copilot in real-world scenarios.If you’re new to Copilot and are looking for a more hands-off approach, opt your new users in to receive the Great Copilot Journey emails directly from Microsoft.
10/12/2025
Imagine Cup x GitHub x Replit: The Power Combo Helping Student Founders Build What Matters
You’re not just working on a project, you’re building a product with real potential. GitHub and Replit give you the tools to iterate quickly, refine your build, and act on the customer insights and market guidance you’ll get from Imagine Cup mentors and industry experts.: Tap into the world’s largest open-source community (180M+ developers)
10/12/2025
We Want to Hear from You!
We believe the best ideas don’t just come from within—they come from you, our community.Take our quick survey here: Help Us Improve: Share Your Feedback – Fill out formThank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
10/12/2025
Security Guidance Series: CAF 4.0 Understanding Threat From Awareness to Intelligence-Led Defence
Rather than focusing solely on awareness of common cyber-attacks, the framework now calls for a sector-specific, intelligence-informed understanding of the threat landscape.To support this higher level of maturity, Microsoft’s security ecosystem helps public sector authorities turn threat intelligence into actionable understanding, directly aligning with CAF 4.0’s Achieved criteria for control A2.b.Microsoft E3 provides public sector authorities with the foundational capabilities to start aligning with CAF 4.0 A2.b by enabling awareness of common threats and applying that awareness to risk decisions.
10/12/2025
AI Genius Season 2: MVP Speakers Power Asia’s AI Tour—Build Smarter, Faster, and Hands-On
The Microsoft AI Genius Season 2 is here, bringing together the Asia Pacific’s top MVP speakers and developer leaders for a technical deep dive into the future of AI.Inspired by the success of last year’s series, the new season of videos on-demand is designed for developers and dev managers eager to master the tools behind GitHub Copilot, AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure Databricks.The program features three in-depth episodes designed to empower participants.
10/12/2025
Bulk Device Tagging in MDE: PowerShell & API Approach
In Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), device tagging plays a key role by enabling logical grouping, targeted policy application, efficient incident response, compliance tracking, and automation.This guide presents a streamlined method for bulk tagging devices in MDE using the API and PowerShell automation.Use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint API to add tags for multiple devices efficiently.
10/12/2025
Mistral AI Ships Devstral 2 Coding Models And Mistral Vibe CLI For Agentic, Terminal Native Development
Mistral AI has introduced Devstral 2, a next generation coding model family for software engineering agents, together with Mistral Vibe CLI, an open source command line coding assistant that runs inside the terminal or IDEs that support the Agent Communication Protocol.Devstral 2 and Devstral Small 2, model sizes, context and benchmarks Devstral 2 is […]The post Mistral AI Ships Devstral 2 Coding Models And Mistral Vibe CLI For Agentic, Terminal Native Development appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/12/2025
Announcing the release of SQL Server Management Studio 22.1
Welcome to December and another release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)!Today we released SSMS 22.1, which has a few improvements related to GitHub Copilot, as well as several fixes for both GitHub Copilot and SSMS.Bring your own model (BYOM) is now available in SSMS 22.1 for personal subscriptions.
10/12/2025
Don’t miss Building Agents with Azure AI Foundry and Azure AI Foundry Agent Service!
Our dynamic four-part webinar series, Agentic AI + Copilot Partner Skilling Accelerator, empowers you to harness the Microsoft AI ecosystem to unlock new revenue streams and enhance customer success.Don't miss the final session in the series, Building Agents with Azure AI Foundry and Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, where you'll learn how to design and deploy intelligent agents with Azure AI Foundry and Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, including multi-agent architectures and key protocols such as A2A and MCP.The live virtual event is scheduled for December 15, 2025.
09/12/2025
A Coding Guide to Build a Procedural Memory Agent That Learns, Stores, Retrieves, and Reuses Skills as Neural Modules Over Time
In this tutorial, we explore how an intelligent agent can gradually form procedural memory by learning reusable skills directly from its interactions with an environment.We design a minimal yet powerful framework in which skills behave like neural modules: they store action sequences, carry contextual embeddings, and are retrieved by similarity when a new situation […]The post A Coding Guide to Build a Procedural Memory Agent That Learns, Stores, Retrieves, and Reuses Skills as Neural Modules Over Time appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/12/2025
Azure Managed Redis & Azure Cosmos DB with cache‑aside: a practical guide
Using Azure Managed Redis alongside Azure Cosmos DB is a powerful way to reduce operational costs in read-heavy applications.What each service does: Azure Managed Redis is Microsoft’s first‑party, fully managed service built on Redis Enterprise.adding Azure Managed Redis on top of Azure Cosmos DB reduces RU consumption from repeat reads and smooths tail latency spikes during peak load.
09/12/2025
Now generally available: Modernizing Microsoft Entra ID auth flows with WebView2 in Windows 11
We’re thrilled to share an important update: Entra ID app sign-in through Web Account Manager (WAM) now has the option to be powered by WebView2, the Chromium-based web control, starting with KB5072033 (OS Builds 26200.7462 and 26100.7462) or later.o Configure browsers to use Windows Integrated Authentication (WIA) with AD FS |Disable the WebView2Integration registry key by using the registry, command line, or policy to configure a registry entry by updating the registry with:
09/12/2025
Demystifying AI Security Posture Management
Link: Build a strong security posture for AI |The Next Era of Cloud Security report created by the IDC highlights Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs) as a key investment area for organizations: Defender for Cloud is Microsoft’s modern Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), encompassing multiple cloud security solution services across both Proactive Security and Runtime Protection.
09/12/2025
Important Update: AI-3017 Retirement and New Course AB-731
We want to share an important update regarding the scheduled retirement of AI-3017: AI for Business Leaders which was announced on November 19th.Replacement Course: AB-731T00: Drive AI Transformation in Your Organization (ILT trainer files available December 19, 2025;Encourage learners to register for AB-731 to stay current with Microsoft’s AI strategy.
09/12/2025
SubgenAI makes AI practical, scalable, and sustainable with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
A recent MIT report shows that 95 percent of projects fail to reach production.SubgenAI, a European generative AI company that focuses on democratizing AI for businesses and governments, saw an opportunity to change this.Its flagship platform, Serenity Star, transforms AI agent development from a code-heavy, fragmented process into a streamlined, no-code experience.
09/12/2025
Meeting Recordings in Microsoft Teams are available for M365 subscribers
Built to help you capture, store, and share meeting content securely, this capability is now live for all Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, or Premium subscribers in Microsoft Teams. Access recordings securely in the cloud for up to 30 days after the meeting ends.Here’s how you can share your thoughts:
09/12/2025
Introducing a fresh new look for comments in Word for the web
I’m excited to share our newly updated design for comments in Word for the web.Introducing a fresh new look for comments in Word for the webWe’ve listened and introduced a cleaner, more modern design featuring refreshed icons, buttons, and an improved layout.
09/12/2025
Google LiteRT NeuroPilot Stack Turns MediaTek Dimensity NPUs into First Class Targets for on Device LLMs
The new LiteRT NeuroPilot Accelerator from Google and MediaTek is a concrete step toward running real generative models on phones, laptops, and IoT hardware without shipping every request to a data center.It takes the existing LiteRT runtime and wires it directly into MediaTek’s NeuroPilot NPU stack, so developers can deploy LLMs and embedding models […]The post Google LiteRT NeuroPilot Stack Turns MediaTek Dimensity NPUs into First Class Targets for on Device LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/12/2025
Released: December 2025 Exchange Server Security Updates
Microsoft has released Security Updates (SUs) for vulnerabilities found in:Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE)Customers who enrolled in the Extended Security Update (ESU) program are eligible to receive the December 2025 (and later) security updates for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019.
09/12/2025
No Skype for Business Server Security Updates for December 2025
We have therefore decided that until the end of this Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 ESU period (April 2026) we will make an explicit update related announcement even if we DO NOT release anything for that particular month. There are no security releases for any version of Skype for Business Server in December 2025, for customers with SfB SE, or SfB 2015 or 2019 ESU.The Skype for Business Team
09/12/2025
Partner Case Study | Tiger Analytics
Tiger Analytics is a solutions integrator and Microsoft partner that implements AI-powered solutions.They believe in using AI to transform operations for customers across industries.Their commitment to using AI to develop smart solutions empowered them to help a medical device company develop a predictive maintenance solution for their radiation therapy devices.
09/12/2025
Close the Year Strong with Surface for Business Deals
As organizations look to maximize their remaining budget and prepare for 2026, now is the moment to modernize device fleets with Surface for Business.Through December 24, limited-time Surface promotions make it easier to accelerate refresh cycles, strengthen endpoint security, and equip employees with devices that are AI-ready from day one.Surface for Business devices combine productivity-forward design, leading AI capabilities, and Microsoft security at multiple layers. Whether refreshing a subset of users or upgrading entire departments, organizations can close the year with hardware that helps reduce risk, assists in lowering management overhead, and positions teams for the next wave of AI-driven productivity.
09/12/2025
New! Centralized Agent Dashboard and Enhanced Reporting
Track Adoption Trends and Export Insights with Copilot and Agent AnalyticsAt Ignite 2025, we unveiled key updates to Copilot and Agent Analytics, introducing new features designed to address a critical challenge facing organizations in their AI transformation journey: the need for actionable, transparent insights into Copilot and agent impact and adoption.These enhanced Copilot and Agent Analytics features empower IT, business leaders, and analysts to track usage trends, adoption benchmarks, and agent performance across Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat, all through intuitive dashboards and robust reporting tools.
09/12/2025
Research Drop: Reframing AI Friction as a Mastery Challenge to Drive Impact
More than half of employees say agentic AI integration feels overwhelming and that they are struggling with the pace of change.57% of employees feel overwhelmed by the idea of integrating agentic AI into their work55% of employees struggle to keep up with the pace of change around agentic AI
09/12/2025
Security and governance innovations for Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents from Ignite 2025
Last year, we announced Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Microsoft 365 Copilot (now Generally Available) to block Copilot from processing files and email with specific sensitivity label.Purview DLP for Copilot prompt provides real-time control to help you mitigate data leakage and oversharing risks. It prevents Microsoft 365 Copilot, including pre-built agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, from returning a response when the prompt contains sensitive data. This feature helps to ensure sensitive data is not used for internal grounding or sent through web searches.To help customers address oversharing for a Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment, we published the Oversharing blueprint, powered by two powerful tools: Microsoft Purview, and SharePoint Advanced Management - included in your Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
09/12/2025
Introducing healthcare AI model evaluator: an open-source framework for healthcare AI evaluation
At Microsoft Build, we unveiled the healthcare agent orchestrator —a modular, open-source framework that enables healthcare organizations to compose, coordinate, and govern AI agents across clinical workflows.Building on this foundation, we are excited to introduce healthcare AI model evaluator, available now on GitHub—an open-source evaluation framework that enables healthcare organizations to rigorously benchmark AI systems using their own data, clinical tasks, and performance metrics.Healthcare AI model evaluator enables comprehensive hybrid quantitative and qualitative assessment by integrating automated metrics with expert clinical judgment.
09/12/2025
OSS AI Summit: Building with LangChain
The OSS AI Summit is an interactive online event designed to showcase how open-source AI frameworks empower developers to build, innovate, and scale faster.This first event spotlights LangChain, the leading framework for creating AI-driven applications in Python and JavaScript.Attendees will explore core LangChain components, agents, and tools, learn how Azure AI enhances scalability and integration, and see real-world demonstrations of agent workflows powered by LangChain and MCP.
09/12/2025
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐓: 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲
In an industry obsessed with speed, automation, and tooling, there’s one capability that quietly determines whether a project actually succeeds:👉 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲Not empathy in the emotional sense —but the ability to step into the shoes of:Operational Empathy is the habit of stepping into the shoes of the teams who will run, monitor, secure, and support the application after go-live.It means asking questions like:- If I introduce this design choice, who will maintain it?- How will the support team troubleshoot this?- Will this create noise on monitoring dashboards?- Is onboarding new engineers going to be a nightmare?- What happens at 2 AM when an alert fire — is the runbook clear?This single mindset shift dramatically transforms delivery outcomes.🎯 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝑰𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑹𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝑬𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕Every upstream decision has a downstream cost.1️⃣ Smoother Deployments & Fewer EscalationsWhen engineering anticipates operational needs early, issues like missing alerts, unclear log patterns, or unsupported configurations don’t become last-minute fire drills.2️⃣ Faster Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)If Ops has the right tools, logs, metrics, and runbooks from Day 1, incidents shrink from hours → minutes.3️⃣ Happier Support TeamsHandovers stop feeling like “surprise gifts” and more like mature transitions.4️⃣ Stronger Relationships & AccountabilityTeams collaborate instead of blame-shifting.Delivery stops seeing Operations as blockers;Operational Empathy is not a soft skill.It is a strategic differentiator in modern IT delivery.Teams that practice it ship faster, break less, escalate less, and collaborate better.And in a world moving toward automation, AI, and cloud-native complexity, the ability to think about downstream impact will become the new superpower for IT professionals.
09/12/2025
How AI closes requirements gaps, and how Modern Requirements and Microsoft Marketplace can help
In this guest blog post, Asif Sharif, CEO of Modern Requirements, explores where DevOps workflows fall short and how teams can better manage requirements with Copilot4DevOps, Modern Requirements4DevOps, and Microsoft Azure DevOps.Every DevOps leader I meet agrees on one thing: Requirements remain the least automated and most error-prone part of the DevOps lifecycle.How AI in requirements management improves Azure DevOps lifecycle
09/12/2025
Agent Mode in Excel is now generally available on Excel for Web
We’re excited to announce that Agent Mode in Excel is now generally available on Excel for Web, rolling out to users with a commercial Microsoft 365 Copilot license or a Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.This launch marks a major shift in how you work with Copilot in Excel—moving from basic assistance to an agentic experience with capabilities to build multi-step workflows directly in your workbook.Agent Mode in Excel
09/12/2025
🌩️ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐍𝐨 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬🌩️
Everyone talks about 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨, 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨 — but the real challenges of cloud migrations often live below the surface.Here are the invisible challenges no one warns you about:⚠️ 1. 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬Everyone is “involved” — but no one is responsible.Migration stalls in the grey zones.🔍 2. 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐚𝐩𝐬No runbooks.No monitoring.No rollback plans.Issues waiting to explode at cutover.📉 3. 𝐔𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲Some apps fly.Some crawl.But the migration date?Same for all.𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞Most “critical blockers” were actually early signals…just never captured, assessed, or tracked.This is where 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 (𝐎𝐑) changes the game.🌟 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉.They fail due to lack of readiness.When 𝐎𝐑 is done right, go-lives feel less like firefighting…
09/12/2025
Extending SharePoint capabilities - Lightning Tools - SharePoint Partner Showcase
We are excited to share a new episode on our partner showcase series focused on SharePoint in Microsoft 365.In this brief discussion and demonstration, Brett Lonsdale, Founder and CEO at Lightning Tools, joins Vesa Juvonen from Microsoft to explore the different products Lightning Tools have build with with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) for Microsoft 365 and SharePoint.During the demo, Brett shows four SPFx-based products that solve real challenges for customers every day:
09/12/2025
Zhipu AI Releases GLM-4.6V: A 128K Context Vision Language Model with Native Tool Calling
Zhipu AI has open sourced the GLM-4.6V series as a pair of vision language models that treat images, video and tools as first class inputs for agents, not as afterthoughts bolted on top of text.Model lineup and context length The series has 2 models.GLM-4.6V is a 106B parameter foundation model for cloud and […]
09/12/2025
From Bronze to Gold: Data Quality Strategies for ETL in Microsoft Fabric
When combined with Great Expectations, an open-source data quality framework, Fabric becomes a powerful environment for enforcing data quality at scale.In this article, we explore how to implement enterprise-ready, parameterized data validation inside Fabric notebooks using Great Expectations including row-count drift detection, schema checks, primary-key uniqueness, and time-series batch validation.Great Expectations + Microsoft Fabric creates a scalable, modular, enterprise-ready approach for ensuring data quality across the entire medallion architecture.
09/12/2025
AI Dev Days 2025: Your Gateway to the Future of AI Development
Building AI Applications with Azure, GitHub, and FoundryExplore cutting-edge topics like:Using AI to Boost Developer ProductivityGet hands-on with:Highlights from Microsoft Ignite & GitHub Universe 2025: Stay ahead of the curve.
09/12/2025
From Large Semi-Structured Docs to Actionable Data: Reusable Pipelines with ADI, AI Search & OpenAI
The potential applications for an Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) pipeline differ across industries.Intelligent Document Processing for large semi-structured documents isn’t just about extracting data, it’s about building trust in that data.By combining Azure Document Intelligence for layout-aware OCR with OpenAI models for contextual understanding, we create a well thought out in-depth pipeline that is accurate, scalable, and resilient against complexity.
09/12/2025
Microsoft Foundry - Everything you need to build AI apps & agents
Yina Arenas, Microsoft Foundry CVP, shares how to keep your development and operations teams coordinated, ensuring productivity, governance, and visibility across all your AI projects. Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog-So that’s how the expanded Microsoft Foundry simplifies the development and operations experience to help you and your team build powerful AI apps and agents faster, with more control, while integrated directly into your code.
09/12/2025
Microsoft Learn for Educators Newsletter – December 2025
Have you or a colleague leveraged MSLE to make a meaningful impact on teaching or student success? We’d love to hear about it! Recognize your own work or spotlight a colleague who is elevating learning through MSLE. Your story could inspire faculty around the world.👉 Share your story in the Faculty Spotlight and help amplify faculty voices across the MSLE community.Microsoft Ignite 2025 introduced groundbreaking tools to help you teach smarter, research faster, and engage students in new ways. Here’s what’s new:
09/12/2025
Azure Arc Server Forum: 2026 Updates
We are excited to announce the fourth calendar year of the Azure Arc Server Forum.From January 2026, the monthly Azure Arc Server Forum will be hosted on the third Thursday of each month from 9:30 – 10:15 AM PST.Each Arc Server Forum includes live demos of new capabilities, question and answer sessions with the product group, and feedback opportunities covering Windows, Linux, and SQL Server management, licensing, and connectivity across hybrid, multicloud, and edge environments.
08/12/2025
Microsoft Agent Pre-Purchase Plan: One Unified Path to Scale AI Agents
AI is now essential, and at Microsoft Ignite 2025, we introduced a new foundation for intelligent agents: Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ.How to purchase a Microsoft Agent Pre-Purchase Plan?The Microsoft Agent Pre-Purchase Plan is designed to make your AI journey simpler, smarter, and more cost-effective.
08/12/2025
Improved address management in service orders on Surface Portals
We’ve introduced an important usability improvement to the address selection experience in the service order workflow on both Surface Management Portal and Surface Support Portal.When raising a service order, users can add both the billing and shipping addresses and save them for future use.Shipping addresses now appear only in the Shipping Address dropdown, and billing addresses appear only in the Billing Address dropdown.
08/12/2025
Jina AI Releases Jina-VLM: A 2.4B Multilingual Vision Language Model Focused on Token Efficient Visual QA
Jina AI has released Jina-VLM, a 2.4B parameter vision language model that targets multilingual visual question answering and document understanding on constrained hardware.The model couples a SigLIP2 vision encoder with a Qwen3 language backbone and uses an attention pooling connector to reduce visual tokens while preserving spatial structure.Among open 2B scale VLMs, it […]
08/12/2025
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (November 2025)
Summary: Microsoft has announced the general availability of the JavaScript Challenge feature for Azure Front Door’s Web Application Firewall (WAF).Summary: The article explains how to derive expiry days and remaining retention days for blobs in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Gen2 accounts using Blob Inventory reports.Summary: Microsoft has announced a limited preview of Azure Virtual Desktop for hybrid environments, enabling organizations to run cloud-native virtual desktops and applications on existing on-premises infrastructure via Azure Arc.
08/12/2025
How to Modernise a Microsoft Access Database (Forms + VBA) to Node.JS, OpenAPI and SQL Server
Its integration with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), an object-based programming language, ensured that Access solutions often became central to business operations. Analyse the available documentation and changelog to identify the structure, relationships, and business context of the `<business_entity>`.This modernization initiative demonstrated how strategic use of automation and best practices can transform legacy Microsoft Access solutions into scalable, maintainable architectures utilizing Node.js, SQL Server, MongoDB, and OpenAPI.
08/12/2025
Never Explain Context Twice: Introducing Azure SRE Agent memory
One of the most requested capabilities from customers has been the ability for agents to retain knowledge across sessions-learning from past incidents, remembering team preferences, and continuously improving troubleshooting accuracy.Today, we're excited to dive deeper into the Azure SRE Agent memory, a powerful feature that transforms how your operations teams work with AI.When building custom sub-agents with the Sub-Agent Builder, you can enable memory retrieval by adding the SearchMemory tool to your sub-agent's toolset.
08/12/2025
Accelerated Collaboration Forums: Join the Conversation and Drive Innovation!
If so, Accelerated Collaboration Forums (ACFs) are designed for you!What Are Accelerated Collaboration Forums (ACFs)?Membership in the Microsoft Customer Connection Program (MCCP) is required—if you’re not a member yet, you can join here.
08/12/2025
Kimi K2 Thinking Now in Microsoft Foundry
Designed as a true thinking agent, it performs multi-step reasoning, orchestrates long chains of tool calls, and maintains stable, goal-directed behavior across hundreds of steps.With this launch, Microsoft Foundry continues to expand its leadership as the cloud platform with the widest, most diverse models, spanning frontier models, open models, and now state-of-the-art thinking systems.Kimi K2 Thinking represents a new wave of open, high-performance reasoning models that don’t just answer but truly think through complex problems with tools and data.
08/12/2025
Exploring the Future of AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry
Over 1 billion AI agents are expected to be in use by 2028.80% of organisations plan to integrate agents within the next 2–3 years.Agents address critical challenges such as inefficiencies in manual processes, human error, lack of visibility, and scalability issues.
08/12/2025
Microsoft Defender: Smart Containment Stops Exposed Privileged AD Domain Accounts
In the context of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), a high-risk account is any user or service account that, if compromised, could pose a significant security threat to the organization.Microsoft Defender XDR provides groundbreaking capability: proactive containment of exposed high-risk domain accounts.Microsoft Defender XDR proactive containment of exposed high-risk domain accounts represents a paradigm shift from reactive defense to preemptive protection.
08/12/2025
Interview: From CUDA to Tile-Based Programming: NVIDIA’s Stephen Jones on Building the Future of AI
As AI models grow in complexity and hardware evolves to meet the demand, the software layer connecting the two must also adapt.We recently sat down with Stephen Jones, a Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA and one of the original architects of CUDA.Jones, whose background spans from fluid mechanics to aerospace engineering, offered deep insights […]
08/12/2025
Prep for year-end reviews with Microsoft Copilot
To ease some of the burden, turn to Microsoft Copilot!Generate ideas for you and your team’s reviewsHelp me draft my self-evaluation for my performance review.
08/12/2025
Copilot Pages & Notebooks, Microsoft Loop: IT Admin Update – December 2025
Many key governance, lifecycle, and compliance features for Loop workspaces and Copilot Pages & Notebooks are now available. Learn more here Also, check out the latest from Ignite 2025 on Unlocking Productivity with Copilot Pages.IT policy to require Microsoft 365 groups for lifecycle management of shared Loop workspaces
08/12/2025
Data Mapper Test Executor: A New Addition to Logic Apps Standard Test Framework
The Data Mapper Test Executor changes that by bringing first-class support for map testing directly into the Logic Apps Standard Automated Test Framework.Native Support for Data Mapper TestingExecute unit tests for XSLT 1.0/2.0/3.0 and Logic Apps Data Mapper (.lml) files without leaving your development environment.Add the Data Mapper Test Executor to Your Test ProjectInclude the new class in your unit test suite for Logic Apps workflows.
08/12/2025
Unlocking AI-Driven Data Access: Azure Database for MySQL Support via the Azure MCP Server
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an emerging open protocol designed to integrate AI models with external data sources and services in a scalable, standardized, and secure manner.Introducing new Azure MCP Server tools to interact with Azure Database for MySQLUse GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code to gain meaningful insights from your business data in Azure Database for MySQL.
08/12/2025
Fero Labs and Valimail offer transactable partner solutions in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Fero Labs and Valimail deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace.Valimail Enforce: Valimail Enforce accelerates your journey to Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) enforcement, ensuring Microsoft 365 users get complete email security with seamless integration and automation.With a unique blend of speed and simplicity, Valimail boosts security against phishing and spoofing, increases trust and credibility, and enhances your company's brand image.
08/12/2025
.NET 10 and Memory: Less Heap, Smarter GC, Faster Apps
As Microsoft steps into the Ignite 2025 era of “AI-first everything” across Azure, Foundry, and cloud-native workloads, .NET quietly got its own big upgrade: .NET 10, a new long-term support (LTS) release and the official successor to .NET 9, supported for three years.A few days later at Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco, the story zoomed out: AI agents, Azure-hosted workloads, and App Service / Functions all moved forward with first-class .NET 10 support, positioning this runtime as the default foundation for modern cloud and AI solutions.In .NET 10, if the JIT can inline DoubleResult and prove the delegate never escapes the method, the delegate object is stack-allocated instead.
08/12/2025
From Transformers to Associative Memory, How Titans and MIRAS Rethink Long Context Modeling
Google Research is proposing a new way to give sequence models usable long term memory with Titans and MIRAS, while keeping training parallel and inference close to linear.Titans is a concrete architecture that adds a deep neural memory to a Transformer style backbone.MIRAS is a general framework that views […]
08/12/2025
Deploying Windows Servers in an Azure Availability Set
Deploying Windows Servers in an Azure Availability SetThis guide demonstrates deploying Windows Server an Azure Availability Set for Windows Server IIS workloads.An availability set logically groups virtual machines across fault domains and update domains within a single Azure data center.
08/12/2025
Cisco Released Cisco Time Series Model: Their First Open-Weights Foundation Model based on Decoder-only Transformer Architecture
Cisco and Splunk have introduced the Cisco Time Series Model, a univariate zero shot time series foundation model designed for observability and security metrics.It is released as an open weight checkpoint on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and it targets forecasting workloads without task specific fine tuning.The model extends TimesFM 2.0 […]
07/12/2025
Google Colab Integrates KaggleHub for One Click Access to Kaggle Datasets, Models and Competitions
Google is closing an old gap between Kaggle and Colab.Colab now has a built in Data Explorer that lets you search Kaggle datasets, models and competitions directly inside a notebook, then pull them in through KaggleHub without leaving the editor.What Colab Data Explorer actually ships?
07/12/2025
A Coding Implementation of a Complete Hierarchical Bayesian Regression Workflow in NumPyro Using JAX-Powered Inference and Posterior Predictive Analysis
In this tutorial, we explore hierarchical Bayesian regression with NumPyro and walk through the entire workflow in a structured manner.We start by generating synthetic data, then we define a probabilistic model that captures both global patterns and group-level variations.Through each snippet, we set up inference using NUTS, analyze posterior distributions, and perform posterior […]
07/12/2025
End-to-End Observability for Azure Databricks: From Infrastructure to Internal Application Logging
By combining internal and external observability mechanisms, organizations can achieve a comprehensive view: internal logs enable detailed analysis of Spark jobs and data quality, while external logs ensure global visibility, auditing, and integration with broader monitoring dashboards and alerting systems. Compute log delivery in Azure Databricks enables you to automatically collect and archive logs from Spark driver nodes, worker nodes, and cluster events for both all-purpose and job compute resources.Tags are key-value pairs applied at the resource level and can be propagated to Azure for billing and monitoring.
07/12/2025
Windows Authentication for Cloud-Native Identities: Modernizing Azure SQL Managed Instance (Preview)
Today, we’re excited to announce support for Windows Authentication for Microsoft Entra principals on Azure SQL Managed Instance, enabling cloud-native identities to authenticate using familiar Windows credentials.Cloud-Only Identity (Preview): Identities that exist only in Microsoft Entra ID can now leverage Kerberos-based Windows Authentication for workloads like Azure SQL Managed Instance—without requiring domain controllers.Seamless Migration: Move legacy applications to Azure SQL Managed Instance without rewriting authentication logic.
07/12/2025
Microsoft AI Releases VibeVoice-Realtime: A Lightweight Real‑Time Text-to-Speech Model Supporting Streaming Text Input and Robust Long-Form Speech Generation
Microsoft has released VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, a real time text to speech model that works with streaming text input and long form speech output, aimed at agent style applications and live data narration.The model can start producing audible speech in about 300 ms, which is critical when a language model is still generating the rest of […]The post Microsoft AI Releases VibeVoice-Realtime: A Lightweight Real‑Time Text-to-Speech Model Supporting Streaming Text Input and Robust Long-Form Speech Generation appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/12/2025
How to Build an Adaptive Meta-Reasoning Agent That Dynamically Chooses Between Fast, Deep, and Tool-Based Thinking Strategies
We begin this tutorial by building a meta-reasoning agent that decides how to think before it thinks.Instead of applying the same reasoning process for every query, we design a system that evaluates complexity, chooses between fast heuristics, deep chain-of-thought reasoning, or tool-based computation, and then adapts its behaviour in real time.The post How to Build an Adaptive Meta-Reasoning Agent That Dynamically Chooses Between Fast, Deep, and Tool-Based Thinking Strategies appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/12/2025
OpenAGI Foundation Launches Lux: A Foundation Computer Use Model that Tops Online Mind2Web with OSGym At Scale
How do you turn slow, manual click work across browsers and desktops into a reliable, automated system that can actually use a computer for you at scale?Lux is the latest example of computer use agents moving from research demo to infrastructure.OpenAGI Foundation team has released Lux, a foundation model that operates real desktops […]
06/12/2025
Kernel Principal Component Analysis (PCA): Explained with an Example
Dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA work wonderfully when datasets are linearly separable—but they break down the moment nonlinear patterns appear.That’s exactly what happens with datasets such as two moons: PCA flattens the structure and mixes the classes together. Kernel PCA fixes this limitation by mapping the data into a higher-dimensional feature space where nonlinear […]The post Kernel Principal Component Analysis (PCA): Explained with an Example appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/12/2025
How to Design a Fully Local Multi-Agent Orchestration System Using TinyLlama for Intelligent Task Decomposition and Autonomous Collaboration
In this tutorial, we explore how we can orchestrate a team of specialized AI agents locally using an efficient manager-agent architecture powered by TinyLlama.We walk through how we build structured task decomposition, inter-agent collaboration, and autonomous reasoning loops without relying on any external APIs.By running everything directly through the transformers library, we create […]
06/12/2025
Windows on Arm runs more apps and games with new Prism update
Today, Windows on Arm devices, such as those powered by the Snapdragon X series processors, are getting a boost thanks to an update to Prism that increases performance and enables running more apps and games under emulation. The Prism emulator is a core part of the Windows on Arm platform, ensuring that Windows apps are able to run seamlessly on ...
05/12/2025
Title Plan Update – December 5, 2025
December 5, 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 ...
05/12/2025
Apple Researchers Release CLaRa: A Continuous Latent Reasoning Framework for Compression‑Native RAG with 16x–128x Semantic Document Compression
How do you keep RAG systems accurate and efficient when every query tries to stuff thousands of tokens into the context window and the retriever and generator are still optimized as 2 separate, disconnected systems?A team of researchers from Apple and University of Edinburgh released CLaRa, Continuous Latent Reasoning, (CLaRa-7B-Base, CLaRa-7B-Instruct and CLaRa-7B-E2E) a […]The post Apple Researchers Release CLaRa: A Continuous Latent Reasoning Framework for Compression‑Native RAG with 16x–128x Semantic Document Compression appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/12/2025
Discover skills used by employees – and how to act on them – with the new Skills landscape report
Given the diversification of skill sets in today’s global workforce, it’s more important than ever for business leaders to stay informed about the skills used by their employees. This information can be difficult to ascertain, given today’s broadly distributed workforce, the variety and complexity of HR information management systems, and the lack of unifying connectors between them.  ...
05/12/2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Top Security Innovations You Need to Know
🤖 Security & AI -The Big Story This Year 2025 marks a turning point for cybersecurity. Rapid adoption of AI across enterprises has unlocked innovation but introduced new risks. AI agents are now part of everyday workflows-automating tasks and interacting with sensitive data—creating new attack surfaces that traditional security models cannot fully address. Threat actors are leveraging AI to accelerate attacks, making speed and automation critica...
05/12/2025
The City Leader's Dilemma: How AI Is turning urban strain into strategic advantage
Ready to transform how your city plans and operates? Download the Trend Report 2025: Planning and operating thriving cities – innovation for smarter urban living to access the complete playbook on AI-powered urban innovation, complete with case studies from Bangko...
05/12/2025
Teams Phone Extensibility: Bridging Microsoft Teams with Contact Center Platforms
In the modern workplace, communication is no longer confined to emails and meetings. With the rise of hybrid and remote work models, organizations are increasingly relying on unified communication platforms to stay connected. Among these, Microsoft Teams has emerged as a central hub for collaboration, offering chat, meetings, and calling capabilities. But what happens when the need goes beyond internal communications, into the realm of customer service and high-volume interactions? Thi...
05/12/2025
Open AI’s GPT-5.1-codex-max in Microsoft Foundry: Igniting a New Era for Enterprise Developers
Announcing GPT-5.1-codex-max: The Future of Enterprise Coding Starts Now We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of OpenAI's GPT-5.1-codex-max in Microsoft Foundry Models—a leap forward that redefines what’s possible for enterprise-grade coding agents. This isn’t just another model release; it’s a celebration of innovation, partnership, and the relentless pursuit of develop...
05/12/2025
Boosting cloud and AI ROI: The power of Microsoft Marketplace
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face mounting pressure to adapt to new AI-centric technologies while maximizing the value of their cloud investments. The challenge is not just about keeping up with innovation, but also about making smart, future-proof decisions that balance speed, security, and cost efficiency. We had the chance to explore this during the recent
05/12/2025
Azure Bot Identity | Application with identifier 'x' was not found in the directory 'Bot Framework'
TL;DR Every Azure Bot has a fixed identity (MicrosoftAppId) tied to either an App Registration or a Managed Identity—it cannot be changed or reused. Azure Bot supports three identity types:
05/12/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: December 5, 2025
Learn about 199 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
05/12/2025
Learn MCP from our free livestream series in December
Our Python + MCP series is a three-part, hands-on journey into one of the most important emerging technologies of 2025: MCP (Model Context Protocol) — an open standard for extending AI agents and chat interfaces with real-world tools, data, and execution environments. Whether you're building custom GitHub Copilot tools, powering internal developer agents, or creating...
05/12/2025
Proactive Monitoring Made Simple with Azure SRE Agent
SRE teams strive for proactive operations, catching issues before they impact customers and reducing the chaos of incident response. While perfection may be elusive, the real goal is minimizing outages and gaining immediate line of sight into production environments. Today, that’s harder than ever. It requires correlating countless signals and alerts, understanding how they relate—or don’t relate—to each other, and assigning the right sense of urgency and impact. Anything that s...
05/12/2025
Faster Data Copy between Source and target for partitioned table using Partition Switch in ADF
Introduction This blog post presents a comprehensive Azure Data Factory (ADF) solution for automating the migration of partitioned tables from IBM Db2 z/OS to Azure SQL Database. The solution consists of two main components: a Partition Discovery & Preparation Pipeline and a Parallel Copy Pipeline with partition switching capabilities. This approach significantly reduces migratio...
05/12/2025
Deploying a Bun + Hono + Vite app to Azure App Service
TOC Introduction Local Environment Deployment Conclusion 1. Introduction Anthropic, the company behind Claude, recently acquired the JavaScript runtime startup Bun, marking one of the most significant shifts in the modern JavaScript ecosystem since the arrival of Node.js and Deno. This acquisition signals more than a business move, it represents a strategic consolidation of performance-oriented tooli...
05/12/2025
Announcing Support for S2D and SAN Coexistence
Applies to: Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025 Failover Clustering Failover Clustering has supported SAN storage since Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition was released in 1997! In addition, Failover Clustering has supported Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) since Windows Server 2016! Many customers have been asking if they can use (or reuse) their existing iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs together with S2D – and now the answer is Yes!...
04/12/2025
Evaluating AI Agents: More than just LLMs
Artificial intelligence agents are undeniably one of the hottest topics at the forefront of today’s tech landscape. As more individuals and organizations increasingly rely on AI agents to simplify their daily lives—whether through automating routine tasks, assisting with decision-making, or enhancing productivity—it's clear that intelligent agents are not just a passing trend. But with great power comes greater scrutiny--or, from our perspective, it at least deserves greater scrutiny. ...
04/12/2025
Migrate from Amazon API Gateway to Azure API Management
For teams moving from Amazon API Gateway to Azure API Management, we've published a detailed migration guide that addresses the technical considerations and implementation steps for a successful transition: Migrate Amazon API Gateway to Azure API Management. The guide focuses on helping AWS...
04/12/2025
Congrats to the Winners of the 2025 MECC & MEWC!
The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship and Collegiate Challenge wrapped up their season in spectacular fashion at Las Vegas’ HyperX Arena, drawing competitors from nearly every continent and crowning new champions in the fast-growing world of Excel esports. What is Excel esports? It’s a phenomenon redefining competitive gaming. For a deeper dive, see “What is the fast-growing e-sport of competiti...
04/12/2025
Architecting the Next-Generation Customer Tiering System
Authors Sailing Ni*, Joy Yu*, Peng Yan...
04/12/2025
Introducing the updated Agentic DevOps with Microsoft Azure and GitHub specialization
As modern DevOps practices evolve to include AI-powered tooling and GitHub-based workflows, Microsoft is updating the Accelerate Developer Productivity with Microsoft Azure specialization to better reflect how partners are driving customer outcomes today. The specialization has been renamed to the Agentic DevOps with Microsoft Azure and GitHub specialization and features updated performance and audit requirements. What's changing
04/12/2025
Explore changes to the updated AI Apps on Microsoft Azure specialization
Our specialists deliver high-performing solutions backed by deep technical expertise. To help ensure the ecosystem of specialists remains strong, the performance and audit criteria for the AI Apps on Microsoft Azure specialization have been updated. To earn or renew this specialization, your organization must first have an active Solutions Partner designation for either Data & AI (Azure) or Digital & App Innovation (Azure). Then, you must meet all of the following updated...
04/12/2025
Becoming a Frontier Firm: Accelerate custom app development with Quick-Start Development Toolkit
The theme of Ignite was undeniable: Frontier firms are transforming business with investments and projects developing AI apps and agents. And these aren’t just businesses using AI - they’re companies developing and monetizing AI apps and agents. The numbers are clear - here are a few compelling stats from a global study commissioned by Microsoft with the International Data Corporation (IDC...
04/12/2025
Drive Microsoft 365 renewals and upgrades ahead of pricing and packaging updates
We recently announced that in 2026, we’re expanding the availability of security and management capabilities to the commercial Microsoft 365 suites. Along with these added features, there will also be a global price update to these suites across all purchasing channels effective July 1, 2026. ...
04/12/2025
Protect against React RSC CVE-2025-55182 with Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
On December 3, 2025, the React team disclosed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC), tracked as CVE-2025-55182. The vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to send a specially crafted request to an RSC “Server Functio...
04/12/2025
Genesys Cloud and Five9 now supported on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
We’re excited to announce that multimedia call redirection on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 now supports Genesys Cloud and Five9, both Contact-Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS) platforms. This enhancement enables a more optimized calling experience for contact center agents using Genesys Cloud or Five9 in virtual environments. To see a full list of supported CCaaS solutions, refer to our
04/12/2025
Do your deep customer support capabilities set you apart?
Announced at Microsoft Ignite, the Solutions Partner designation for Support Services publicly recognizes and rewards partners with the capabilities required to deliver a quality support experience to customers. The designation highlights your proven support capabilities and differentiates you in the market. It also unlocks valuable incentives
04/12/2025
View Microsoft Ignite sessions on demand
Microsoft Ignite sessions are now available on demand. Whether you were unable to attend this year's event or just want a refresher, you can catch up on what you missed, relive your favorite moments, and continue to gain transformative insights.
04/12/2025
New Windows Autopatch report on CVEs
Your security team needs clear, actionable insights to protect your organization from emerging threats. The new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) report in Windows Autopatch delivers just that. Get a comprehensive view of Windows CVEs addressed by recent quality updates, along with direct links to remediation documentation and device-level vulnerability status.
04/12/2025
December edition of Microsoft Marketplace Partner Digest
Microsoft Ignite 2025 - Marketplace highlights Microsoft Ignite was packed with announcements and insights for Marketplace partners. From new commerce capabilities to AI-driven innovations, here are some key takeaways: Global expansion of Microsoft Marketplace - Microsoft announced that the reimagined
04/12/2025
Customer Spotlight: Copilot Adoption in Viva Engage with Micron
One of the most effective ways to accelerate adoption and build confidence is by learning from the experiences of others. Gaining insights from customers who have already navigated similar journeys provides invaluable real-world examples and practical lessons, helping organizations avoid common pitfalls and capitalize on proven strategies. It's especially beneficial to connect with other customers who have gone first, as their firsthand knowledge can guide and inspire your own approach to Cop...
04/12/2025
Advancing Microsoft 365 Government: New Capabilities and Pricing Update
Public sector organizations are navigating increasingly complex security challenges, evolving technology needs, and the imperative to modernize for an AI-driven future. To support these priorities, Microsoft is expanding availability of security, management, and AI features to a wider range of Microsoft 365 Government offerings in 2026. We will also up...
04/12/2025
Microsoft 365 adds advanced Microsoft Intune solutions at scale
In the last three years, Microsoft launched multiple endpoint management solutions with advanced capabilities that enable IT professionals to unify mission critical endpoint management functionality in one cost-effective plan with the Microsoft Intune Suite. These capabilities are essential to accelerate every organization’s journey towards Zero Trust security, improving end user productivity, and empowering IT and security professionals to improve total cost of ownership (TC...
04/12/2025
Announcing compliance recording for call queues in Microsoft Teams
We are excited to announce that support for compliance recording for call queues in Microsoft Teams will be generally available next week! What’s New? Compliance recording for call queues enables organizations to record the entirety of call queue calls, ensuring regulatory compliance and a seamless caller experience. User-level compliance recording isn't supported for call queues, which can cause overlapping announcements...
04/12/2025
MVPs at Microsoft Ignite 2025: Champions of Innovation and Community
Microsoft Ignite 2025 gathered 20,000 technology professionals in San Francisco and many more joined online from November 18 to 21, offering a dynamic environment focused on learning, networking, and innovation. At the heart of this experience were our Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and Regional Directors (RDs) - community leaders who shared their expertise, inspired attendees, and amplified the spirit of collaboration across the globe....
04/12/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: December 4, 2025
Learn about 128 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. Go further with workshops, proofs of concept, and implementations
04/12/2025
Monthly news - December 2025
Microsoft DefenderMonthly news - December 2025 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defender products. In this edition, we are looking at all the goodness from October 2025. Defender for Cloud has its own Monthly News post, have a look at
04/12/2025
AI Interview Series #4: Transformers vs Mixture of Experts (MoE)
Question: MoE models contain far more parameters than Transformers, yet they can run faster at inference. How is that possible? Difference between Transformers & Mixture of Experts (MoE) Transformers and Mixture of Experts (MoE) models share the same backbone architecture—self-attention layers followed by feed-forward layers—but they differ fundamentally in how they use parameters and compute. […] The post
04/12/2025
How to Build a Meta-Cognitive AI Agent That Dynamically Adjusts Its Own Reasoning Depth for Efficient Problem Solving
In this tutorial, we build an advanced meta-cognitive control agent that learns how to regulate its own depth of thinking. We treat reasoning as a spectrum, ranging from fast heuristics to deep chain-of-thought to precise tool-like solving, and we train a neural meta-controller to decide which mode to use for each task. By optimizing the […] The post
04/12/2025
Compliance Meets Ai 2026: Microsoft Purview in the Age of Ai
AI is no longer a future trend—it’s the present reality. From Microsoft Copilot to custom-built AI agents, organizations are embracing generative AI to transform productivity. But with innovation comes responsibility. Compliance can’t be an afterthought—it must be the foundation. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the return of our highly acclaimed webinar series: Compliance Meets AI, now bigger, bolder, and laser-focused on the challenges and oppor...
04/12/2025
Build less, secure more: Simplify security data management with Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Most DIY security data lakes start with good intentions—promising flexibility, control, and cost savings. But in reality, they lead to endless data ingestion fixes, schema drift battles, and soaring costs. They fail because they lack the capabilities to manage security data that’s not just massive, but complex, dynamic, and compliance heavy. Ingestion chaos: Every team implements its own pipelines for diverse data sets like firewalls, endpoint, network, threat in...
03/12/2025
Beyond the Chat Window: How Change-Driven Architecture Enables Ambient AI Agents
AI agents are everywhere now. Powering chat interfaces, answering questions, helping with code. We've gotten remarkably good at this conversational paradigm. But while the world has been focused on chat experiences, something new is quietly emerging: ambient agents. These aren't replacements for chat, they're an entirely new category of AI system that operates in the background, sensing, processing, and responding to the world in real time. And here's the thing, this is a new frontier. The in...
03/12/2025
Unlocking AI-Powered Insights with SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric
A New Era of Data Integration for SAP Partners At Microsoft Ignite, SAP and Microsoft unveiled SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric, a breakthrough capability designed to help enterprises—and their partners—unlock the full potential of their data for advanced analytics and AI-driven innovation. This integration simplifies access to semantically rich SAP data products through bi-directional, zero-copy sharing with Microsoft Fabric. For partners, t...
03/12/2025
M365 Copilot App Builder & Workflows Agents
Hey there! 😀 In this video you will learn how M365 Copilot App Builder and Workflows Agents can help you streamline your business processes with ease! 🙌
03/12/2025
Copilot Your Holidays: Episode 2 – Gift Ideas, Party Planning, and Year-End Insights
The holiday season is here, and Copilot can make it easier—and more fun. In Episode 2 of our Copilot Your Holidays series, we explored creative ways to use Copilot for holiday planning, from quirky gift ideas to organizing office parties and analyzing year-end feedback. What We Covered Recap of Episode 1: Thanksgiving-inspired meals generated by Copilot. Holiday Fun with Copilot: Creative prompts f...
03/12/2025
What's new in Teams Free | October 2025
Two big features are available to Teams Insiders and spell check on desktop and web to get rid of typos. Learn more on the Teams Insider Blog: https://insider.teams.com/blog/whats-new-in-teams-free-october-2025/
03/12/2025
What's new in Teams Free | September 2025
Start an instant meeting on mobile from chat and see your recent calls on Meet tab on desktop and web. Read more about the latest updates on the Teams Insider Blog: https://insider.teams.com/blog/whats-new-in-teams-free-september-2025/
03/12/2025
What's new in Teams Free | August 2025
It's easier than ever to find contacts in Teams Free. And there's a new compact chat mode as well. Read more on the Teams Insider Blog: https://insider.teams.com/blog/whats-new-in-teams-free-august-2025/
03/12/2025
What's new in Teams Free | July 2025
Learn more about the latest meeting improvements and new privacy controls in Teams Free on the Teams Insider Blog: https://insider.teams.com/blog/whats-new-in-teams-free-july-2025/
03/12/2025
What's new in Teams Free | June 2025
Read more about the recent meeting improvements (PowerPoint Live consumption now supported!) and other updates in Teams Free on the Teams Insider Blog: https://insider.teams.com/blog/whats-new-in-teams-free-june-2025/
03/12/2025
View or restore previous versions of Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages
Hi, Insiders! I’m Oby Omu, and I’m a Product Manager on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app team. I’m excited to share that you can now view and restore previous Microsoft 365 Copilot Page versions to easily and confidently refine your work. View or restore previous versions of Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages Copilot Pages are built for iteration, and being able to edit and refine AI responses is a core part of the experience. With version history on Windows, Mac, and the web, you can n...
03/12/2025
Partner Blog | Powering growth through benefits that drive real impact
Partner benefits packages sit at the center of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. These packages are bundled offerings designed for partners, and they include discounted licenses on the Microsoft products you already use to run your business, along with one-on-one personalized support, developer tools, and additional resources. The three-tiered packages feature increasingly robust offerings to meet your business in any stage of growth, whether you’re building new practices, scaling servi...
03/12/2025
Unlocking growth: The channel-led Marketplace opportunity
Microsoft’s ecosystem, now boasting over 500,000 partners and tens of thousands of solutions, is seeing explosive growth.Deals brokered through collaboration between software companies and channel partners are not only more frequent, but also 75% larger than average.The multiplier effect is real: for every dollar transacted, software companies see an additional $1.75 in value, while channel partners are seeing a remarkable $6.26 for every dollar.
03/12/2025
Essential Intune reading list: MVP community content for 2025
As we head into the holiday season, I wanted to take a moment to celebrate something truly special: the incredible contributions from our Microsoft Intune MVP community this year. Last year, I released our first Holiday Reading post, which got a lot of traction, and I was asked to do it again this year — so I guess we are starting a new tradition! Whet...
03/12/2025
AI- powered maintenance management with Microsoft Azure
Welcome to another edition of our Partner Spotlight series, where we showcase the innovators transforming maintenance and field service operations through the Microsoft Marketplace. Each feature uncovers the unique journey of a partner leveraging the Microsoft ecosystem to deliver AI-powered solutions and transactable offers that simplify enterprise adoption and accelerate digital transformation. In this article, I connected with Benjamin Schwärzler from Workheld, a Vienna-based SaaS p...
03/12/2025
Unlock AI-Ready Insights: Empowering Nonprofits with Microsoft Fabric
Disconnected data slows impact—but it doesn’t have to. Nonprofit data solutions in Microsoft Fabric unify your data, accelerate insights, and create an AI-ready foundation for smarter decisions. Imagine moving from raw donor data to actionable insights in weeks, not months. With Fabric, nonprofits gain: Unified fundraising data in one place Instant insights through ready-made dashboards ...
03/12/2025
International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Our commitment to a better screen reader experience
Hi, Insiders! I’m Clint Covington, Group Product Manager for Microsoft 365 Apps Accessibility. Today is the United Nations-sponsored International Day of Persons with Disabilities, where we reaffirm our commitment to fostering disability-inclusive societies. In honor of this important goal, I wanted to recap several major enhancements we’ve ...
03/12/2025
Moderation strategies to scale participation and communications in Viva Engage
Viva Engage brings people together around org-wide communications, communities, and knowledge sharing. Leaders, frontline workers, employees, and corporate communicators, want the benefits of two-way dialog and community participation, but often wonder how to make sure relevant content reaches the right audiences while keeping public spaces safe for all. When your network is thoughtfully crafted to match your business needs and reflect your culture, users can contribute openly wi...
03/12/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #10: Why PITR Networking Rules Matter
Co‑authored with angesalsaa Symptoms Customer attempted to restore a server configured with public access into a private virtual network. Restore operation failed with an error indicating unsupported configuration. Root ...
03/12/2025
The Microsoft Defender for AI Alerts
I will start this blog post by thanking my Secure AI GBB Colleague Hiten Sharma for his contributions to this Tech Blog as a peer-reviewer. Microsoft Defender for AI (part of Microsoft Defender) helps organizations threats to generative AI application...
03/12/2025
Syskit and Solgari offer transactable partner solutions in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Syskit and Solgari deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:
03/12/2025
Security Review for Microsoft Edge version 143
We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 143 and determined that there are no additional security settings that require enforcement. The Microsoft Edge version 139 security baseline continues to be our recommended configuration which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. Microsoft Edge version 143 introduced 3 new Computer and User settings...
03/12/2025
Automating HPC Workflows with Copilot Agents
Introduction High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads are complex, requiring precise job submission scripts and careful resource management. Manual scripting for platforms like OpenFOAM is time-consuming, error-prone, and often frustrating. At SC25, we showcased how Copilot Agents—powered by AI—are transforming HPC workflows by automating Slurm submission scripts, making scientific computing more efficient and accessible. A full demonstration can be found in the vide...
03/12/2025
Building an Agentic, AI-Powered Helpdesk with Agents Framework, Azure, and Microsoft 365
The High-Level ArchitectureThe core idea is to decouple the system. Instead of one large application doing everything, we split the process into distinct, scalable components.Ingestion: A lightweight API endpoint simply to capture the request.Decoupling: A message queue to hold the request for background processing.Processing: An asynchronous worker that handles all the heavy lifting: AI e...
03/12/2025
Announcing General Availability for Azure Resource Graph (ARG) GET/LIST API
ARG GET/LIST API delivers 10X higher throttling quotas to callers compared to ARG query unlocking a more scalable, resilient way to perform resource lookups in Azure. ARG GET/LIST API is a new platform capability within Azure Resource Graph that provides a high-performance experience for both Point GET and collect...
03/12/2025
NVIDIA and Mistral AI Bring 10x Faster Inference for the Mistral 3 Family on GB200 NVL72 GPU Systems
NVIDIA announced today a significant expansion of its strategic collaboration with Mistral AI. This partnership coincides with the release of the new Mistral 3 frontier open model family, marking a pivotal moment where hardware acceleration and open-source model architecture have converged to redefine performance benchmarks. This collaboration is a massive leap in inference speed: the […] The post
03/12/2025
Understand and fix errors with descriptive error cards in Excel for Windows
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Natalie Wiegand, and I’m a Product Manager on the Excel team. I’m excited to share that Microsoft Excel for Windows now offers descriptive error cards to help you understand and fix errors more easily! Understand and fix errors with descriptive error cards in Excel for Windows Historically, it has been difficult to get context on errors like #SPILL! and #VALUE! as to what the problem is or how it could be solved. About six years ago, we released...
03/12/2025
How We Learn Step-Level Rewards from Preferences to Solve Sparse-Reward Environments Using Online Process Reward Learning
In this tutorial, we explore Online Process Reward Learning (OPRL) and demonstrate how we can learn dense, step-level reward signals from trajectory preferences to solve sparse-reward reinforcement learning tasks. We walk through each component, from the maze environment and reward-model network to preference generation, training loops, and evaluation, while observing how the agent gradually improves […] The post
02/12/2025
Serverless Workspaces are live in Azure Databricks
As customers continue to deploy large scale data and AI projects in Azure Databricks, the complexity of deploying and managing these increases. To help you with this, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Serverless workspaces in Azure Databricks. With Serverless workspaces, creation of workspaces is extremely simplified. This means you can quickly create a workspace with serverless compute and default storage. Your teams can focus on gathering the insights from the data instead of ...
02/12/2025
Google DeepMind Researchers Introduce Evo-Memory Benchmark and ReMem Framework for Experience Reuse in LLM Agents
Large language model agents are starting to store everything they see, but can they actually improve their policies at test time from those experiences rather than just replaying context windows? Researchers from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and Google DeepMind propose Evo-Memory, a streaming benchmark and agent framework that targets this exact gap. Evo-Memory evaluates […] The post
02/12/2025
PostgreSQL: Migrating Large Objects (LOBs) with Parallelism and PIPES
Why This Approach? Migrating large objects (LOBs) between PostgreSQL servers can be challenging due to size, performance, and complexity. Traditional methods often involve exporting to files and re-importing, which adds overhead and slows down the process. Also, there could be some Cloud restrictions that limit the usage of other tools like: Pgcopydb: Welcome to pgcopydb’s docu...
02/12/2025
Scaling Azure Compute for Performance
Ignite 2025 highlighted a clear trend across customer and partner discussions: modern workloads—AI inference, data-intensive analytics, and globally distributed applications—require infrastructure that delivers consistent performance, rapid scale-out, and adaptive behavior under real-world pressure. The focus this year was on practical capabilities that remove bottlenecks, simplify operations, and provide the compute foundation needed to support the next wave of innovati...
02/12/2025
Highlights from Ignite 2025: How Agentic AI and Microsoft Copilot are Empowering Healthcare
Copilot in Healthcare: Microsoft 365’s AI Innovations Transforming HLS Workflows Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) organizations today face intense pressures: workforce shortages, clinician burnout, rising costs, and ever-growing patient care demands. Doctors, nurses, and staff are overburdened with administrative tasks and documentation, fueling stress and attrition. The promise of AI-powered assistants, or Copilots, offers a ray of hope. At the latest Microsoft Ignite con...
02/12/2025
Update to EWS Access for Kiosk / Frontline Worker Licensed Users
As part of our ongoing efforts to deprecate Exchange Web Services (EWS), starting with March 1, 2026, we will start to block EWS access for all mailboxes without license rights to EWS. This is another step in our ongoing commitment to enhance the security and control mechanisms of EWS. The impacted licenses are:
02/12/2025
From the Classroom to Las Vegas: MVP David Brown and the Excel Esports Revolution
Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge (MECC) championship stage in Las Vegas What if crunching numbers could land you on a championship stage in Las Vegas? Welcome to the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge (MECC) - where spreadsheets meet esports, and students battle fo...
02/12/2025
Partner Blog | Lead SMBs into the AI frontier with Microsoft 365 Copilot Business
In today’s fast-changing digital landscape, the Microsoft partner ecosystem is the catalyst for building Frontier Firms that lead with AI, embrace innovation, and deliver transformative outcomes for enterprise customers. To illustrate this, the Enterprise Partner Solutions (EPS) Asia Regional Leadership Team (RLT) has launched a new series called Frontier Forward: Asia Edition
02/12/2025
Partner Case Study | CloudFronts
In manufacturing, precision is paramount. Machine quality, specification, and the accuracy of results is critical. That’s always been the case. What’s newer in the manufacturing world is the precision required from the systems that support operations. Manufacturers today are under pressure to deliver seamless customer experiences, whether through e-commerce or service operations, while also maintaining efficiency across global supply chains. Yet many still rely on aging integration fra...
02/12/2025
Whats new in the Backup/Restore area in SQL Server 2025
Over the past several months, we’ve heard from countless customers who are eager for more robust options to protect, compress, and safeguard their SQL Server data. Since introducing these features in public preview, organizations of all sizes have validated their value in real-world workloads and provided invaluable feedback. Following are three
02/12/2025
Making the everyday easier: Behind the scenes with the Surface Pro 12-Inch Keyboard
Everyday barriers in plain sight Most people don’t spend much time thinking about their keyboard. That’s part of what makes it work. You open your device, start typing, and the keyboard fades into the background—until it doesn’t. Until the lighting changes, or your eyes are tired, or you can’t quite tell which key your finger is on. For millions of users, that slight f...
02/12/2025
Windows news you can use: November 2025
In case you haven’t yet had time to catch up on all the announcements from Microsoft Ignite, I’m happy to offer a recap of what was revealed in the world of Windows and Windows 365 plus a few security and Microsoft Intune highlights. Have questions on any of what you read below? Join us this week for Windows Tech Community Live. We’ll be live streaming panel-based discussions today—then answering your questions on th...
02/12/2025
Microsoft Defender Experts - S.T.A.R. Series
Co-author: Samantha Gardener To stay ahead of today’s sophisticated cyber threats, organizations must embrace a proactive defense strategy that includes these three pillars: emerging trends, adaptive strategies, and actionable insights. Threat actors are increasingly leveraging AI-driven attacks, supply chain compromises, and identity-based exploits. Modern strategies focus on zero trust principles, continuous threat hunting, and leveraging advanced threat int...
02/12/2025
Improved keyboard and Narrator support for comments in Word for Windows
Hi, Insiders! I’m Shireen Salma, a Product Manager on the Office Accessibility team. I’m excited to share some new improvements to Microsoft Word for Windows that make keyboard and screen reader navigation for comments more efficient and intuitive. Improved keyboard and Narrator support for comments in Word for Windows At Microsoft, we believe great design starts with listening to feedback – both from you, our customers, but also from our peers. This feature was born fr...
02/12/2025
Hands-On Session: Teach Module in Copilot (available for all educators)
Join us on Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 8am Pacific Time for an in-depth professional development webinar on the new AI-powered "Teach" module in Microsoft 365 that is fully rolled out and available to all educators. This will be a 45 minute hands-on webinar where the Product team will walk through the new updates in detail and you can follow- along at home with your own M365 account! Sign up for the session
02/12/2025
Zero-Trust Agent Architecture: How To Actually Secure Your Agents
Microsoft’s announcements at Ignite 2025 hit right at this point. With the evolution of Azure AI Foundry into Microsoft Foundry, and the launch of Foundry Agent Service, we now have a platform designed not just to build smarter agents, but safer ones — agents with identity,...
02/12/2025
Security Guidance Series: CAF 4.0 Building Proactive Cyber Resilience
It’s Time To Act Microsoft's Digital Defense Report 2025 clearly describes the cyber threat landscape that this guidance is situated in, one that has become more complex, more industrialized, and increasingly democratized. Each day, Microsoft processes more than 100 trillion...
02/12/2025
Cloud as a War Against Entropy
From Physics and Information Theory to Practical Reliability in the Cloud Two years ago I wrote about mitigating downtime and increasing reliability by managing complexity in cloud‑native systems. I used ideas from physics and chaos theory as a lens to explain why cloud archi...
02/12/2025
DeepSeek Researchers Introduce DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale for Long Context Reasoning and Agentic Workloads
How do you get GPT-5-level reasoning on real long-context, tool-using workloads without paying the quadratic attention and GPU cost that usually makes those systems impractical? DeepSeek research introduces DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. They are reasoning-first models built for agents and targets high quality reasoning, long context and agent workflows, with open weights and production APIs. The […] The post
02/12/2025
🎉 Announcing General Availability of AI & RAG Connectors in Logic Apps (Standard)
We’re excited to share that a comprehensive set of AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities is now Generally Available in Azure Logic Apps (Standard). This release brings native support for document processing, semantic retrieval, embeddings, and grounded reasoning directly into the Logic Apps workflo...
01/12/2025
Push method for Azure AI Search
You may be aware that you can build indexes in Azure AI Search by pulling data from known data sources, like Azure Blob storage, SQL server, OneLake, etc. When using the ‘pull’ method, the
01/12/2025
How we talk about the value of Microsoft Marketplace with customers
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we introduced the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace to our customers as your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. This brief, 20-minute breakout session talked about how Marketplace is empowering organizations to become Frontier Firms by streamlining the discovery, purchase, and deployment of tens of thousands of partner solutions. You can watch the session
01/12/2025
How to search for deleted memberships of a group in Active Directory
Have you ever seen a user suddenly lose access to a resource, only to discover they were removed from a group—but with no record of when or how it happened? Tracking deleted group memberships in Active Directory (AD) can be challenging, especially when auditing is not enabled or the logs don’t capture which users were removed. If someone deletes multiple memberships from a Security Group, the Active Directory Recycle Bin won’t help, since it only retains deleted objects—not the details of whi...
01/12/2025
Copilot Studio advanced customization webinar on December 8: Don't Miss out!
Our dynamic four-part webinar series, Agentic AI + Copilot Partner Skilling Accelerator, empowers you to harness the Microsoft AI ecosystem to unlock new revenue streams and enhance customer success. Across the four sessions, Microsoft partners can expect to learn how to apply AI tools across no-code, low-code, and pro-code scenarios to build intelligent chat and workflow solutions, extend and customize capabilities, and create advanced, cus...
01/12/2025
Don’t miss out: Copilot Studio advanced customization webinar on December 8
Our dynamic four-part webinar series, Agentic AI + Copilot Partner Skilling Accelerator, empowers you to harness the Microsoft AI ecosystem to unlock new revenue streams and enhance customer success. Across the four sessions, Microsoft partners can expect to learn how to apply AI tools across no-code, low-code, and pro-code scenarios to build intelligent chat and workflow solutions, extend and customize capabilities, and create advanced, cus...
01/12/2025
November Update: What's new in Azure for Partners
Navigate to News and Announcements, Incentives and Offers, Skilling and Events, Go-To-Market, Customer Success<...
01/12/2025
#MSIgnite Nonprofit AI Sessions
AI is opening new doors for nonprofits to collaborate, innovate, and drive mission impact. During Ignite, we hosted two sessions designed to show how AI can connect IT, fundraising, program management, and operations teams. These on‑demand sessions highlight practical strategies and real nonprofit experiences you can learn from today: Silo Busting for Nonprofits - bridging gaps between technology and program staff in nonprofit organizations
01/12/2025
Immersive events in Microsoft Teams: Now generally available
We’re excited to announce the general availability of immersive events in Teams! This milestone brings 3D event experiences natively into Teams, making it easier to host engaging, interactive events that bring people together on PC, Mac, and Meta Quest devices. With immersive events, organizers can create tailored 3D environments where attendees join as avatar...
01/12/2025
How AI Is Accelerating the Fight Against Pediatric AIDS
When Data Meets Compassion, Lives Change For over three decades, the Elizabeth Glase...
01/12/2025
Faster Python on Azure Functions with uvloop
Python 3.13+ apps on Azure Functions are now faster by default. By replacing the standard event loop with uvloop, the Functions Python worker delivers higher throughput and lower latency for asynchronous workloads — no code changes required. Introduction Azure Functions powers millions of customer sc...
01/12/2025
Faster Azure Functions Python with uvloop
Python 3.13+ apps on Azure Functions are now faster by default. By replacing the standard event loop with uvloop, the Functions Python worker delivers higher throughput and lower latency for asynchronous workloads — no code changes required. Introduction Azure Functions powers millions of customer sc...
01/12/2025
Course Retirement Announcement: MB-7005 and MB-7006
The below courses are being retired on January 30, 2026 due to low performance. Any students interested in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights can look forward to new AI feature focused certifications in the Business Applications space. MB-7005: Create and manage journeys with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
01/12/2025
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Customer Newsletter
What's new in Defender for Cloud? Defender for Cloud integrates into the Defender portal as part of the broader Microsoft Security ecosystem, now in public preview. This integration, while adding posture management insight, eliminates silos natively to allow security teams to see and act on threats across all cloud, hybrid, and code environments from one place. For more information, see our public
01/12/2025
Beyond Visibility: Hybrid Identity Protection with Microsoft Entra & Defender for Identity
In a previous blog, we explored how Microsoft Entra and Defender for Identity form a powerful ...
01/12/2025
Key findings from product telemetry: top storage security alerts across industries
1.0 Introduction Cloud storage stands at the core of AI-driven applications, making its security more vital than ever. As generative AI continues to drive innovation, protecting the storage infrastructure becomes central to ensuring both the reliability and safety of AI solutions.Every industry encounters its own set of storage security challenges. For example, financial services must navigate complex compliance requirements and guard against insider risks. Healthcare organizat...
01/12/2025
MiniMax-M2: Technical Deep Dive into Interleaved Thinking for Agentic Coding Workflows
The AI coding landscape just got a massive shake-up. If you’ve been relying on Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o for your dev workflows, you know the pain: great performance often comes with a bill that makes your wallet weep, or latency that breaks your flow.This article provides a technical overview of MiniMax-M2, focusing on its […] The post MiniMa...
01/12/2025
Microsoft 365 Copilot is now available in GCC-High
We’re excited to announce that Microsoft 365 Copilot is now available for customers in GCC-High, bringing powerful work-ready AI capabilities to organizations with the highest security and compliance requirements. This announcement builds on previous launches in the GCC and
01/12/2025
Catch up on Microsoft Security sessions and announcements from Ignite 2025
Ignite 2025 delivered groundbreaking innovations for securing the agentic era—where AI agents transform how we work and collaborate. If you missed the live sessions, news announcements, or want to dive deeper, here’s your quick start guide to the most important resources and actionable steps to stay informed. <...
01/12/2025
20 Years of Student Innovation: Helping Students Turn Builds into Breakthroughs
Meet A Few Student Founders Who Turned Ideas into Impact Imagine Cup alumni have gone on to raise funding, w...
01/12/2025
Ushering in the Next Era of Cloud-Native AI Capabilities for Radiology
Introducing Dragon Copilot, your AI companion for PowerScribe One For radiologists, the reporting workflow of the future is here. At RSNA 2025, in Chicago, we’re showcasing Dragon Copilot, a cloud-native companion for PowerScribe One. Currently in preview, Dragon Copilot builds on the trusted capabilities of PowerScribe One to accelerate innovation and modernize reporting workflows while unlocking extensibility for radiology teams and partners. ...
01/12/2025
Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - December 2025
In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group Community Playbook News from our community ...
01/12/2025
PostgreSQL 18 Now GA on Azure Postgres Flexible Server
We’re thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of PostgreSQL 18 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. This release marks Azure’s fastest turnaround ever between community release and managed service availability - bringing PostgreSQL 18 to Azure customers withi...
01/12/2025
Introducing the Dragon Copilot experience for nurses
The solution isn’t layering AI onto outdated workflows—it’s reinventing how nurses work, making technology invisible and care effortless.Microsoft Dragon Copilot brings that vision to life—empowering nurses to “care out loud” and capturing documentation seamlessly while technology fades into the background.Dragon Copilot turns real-time bedside conversations and observations into the clinical documentation nurses need—without pulling focus from the patient.
01/12/2025
Implementing and Managing an ADCS Offline Root Certificate Authority (Part 1)
My name is Ron Arestia, and I am a Security Researcher with Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART). We respond to customer cybersecurity incidents to assist with containment and recovery from threat actors. In this blog post, we will be covering the basics of implementing an Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) offline root Certificate Authority (CA) and how to manage it securely. This is the first in a series of follow up posts to my original article reviewing
01/12/2025
How to Design an Advanced Multi-Page Interactive Analytics Dashboard with Dynamic Filtering, Live KPIs, and Rich Visual Exploration Using Panel
In this tutorial, we build an advanced multi-page interactive dashboard using Panel.Through each component of implementation, we explore how to generate synthetic data, apply rich filters, visualize dynamic time-series trends, compare segments and regions, and even simulate live KPI updates.The post How to Design an Advanced Multi-Page Interactive Analytics Dashboard with Dynamic Filtering, Live KPIs, and Rich Visual Exploration Using Panel appeared first on MarkTechPost.
30/11/2025
Defender for AI services: Threat Protection and AI red team workshop
Generative AI is reshaping how enterprises operate, introducing new efficiencies—and new risks. Imagine launching a helpful chatbot, only to learn a cleverly crafted prompt can bypass safety controls and exfiltrate sensitive data. This is today’s reality: every system prompt, plugin/tool, dataset, fine‑tune, or orchestration step can change the attack surface. This is due to the non deterministic nature in how LLM models craft responses in output. The slightest change in the input of a prompt...
30/11/2025
Meta AI Researchers Introduce Matrix: A Ray Native a Decentralized Framework for Multi Agent Synthetic Data Generation
How do you keep synthetic data fresh and diverse for modern AI models without turning a single orchestration pipeline into the bottleneck? Meta AI researchers introduce Matrix, a decentralized framework where both control and data flow are serialized into messages that move through distributed queues. As LLM training increasingly relies on synthetic conversations, tool traces […] The post
30/11/2025
Common Misconceptions When Running Locally vs. Deploying to Azure Linux-based Web Apps
TOC Introduction Environment Variable Build Time Compatible Memory Conclusion 1. Introduction One of the most common issues during project development is the scenario where “the application runs perfectly in the local environment but fails after being deployed to Azure.” <...
30/11/2025
StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-R1: A New Audio LLM that Finally Benefits from Test Time Compute Scaling
Why do current audio AI models often perform worse when they generate longer reasoning instead of grounding their decisions in the actual sound. StepFun research team releases Step-Audio-R1, a new audio LLM designed for test time compute scaling, address this failure mode by showing that the accuracy drop with chain of thought is not an […] The post
29/11/2025
Securing Confidential VM Backups with Azure Recovery Services Vault and Private Endpoints
The answer lies in combining Azure Recovery Services Vault (RSV) with Private Endpoints.With private endpoints, all traffic between your Confidential VM and RSV flows over the secure Microsoft backbone instead of the public internet.Backing up Confidential VMs with Azure Recovery Services vault over private endpoints gives you the best of both worlds: confidential computing protections for your workloads and secure, compliant backups that never leave the private network.
29/11/2025
NVIDIA AI Releases Orchestrator-8B: A Reinforcement Learning Trained Controller for Efficient Tool and Model Selection
How can an AI system learn to pick the right model or tool for each step of a task instead of always relying on one large model for everything? NVIDIA researchers release ToolOrchestra, a novel method for training a small language model to act as the orchestrator- the ‘brain’ of a heterogeneous tool-use agent From […] The post
29/11/2025
A Coding Guide to Design an Agentic AI System Using a Control-Plane Architecture for Safe, Modular, and Scalable Tool-Driven Reasoning Workflows
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic AI using the control-plane design pattern, and we walk through each component step by step as we implement it. We treat the control plane as the central orchestrator that coordinates tools, manages safety rules, and structures the reasoning loop. Also, we set up a miniature retrieval system, […] The post
29/11/2025
Connection, Innovation and Social Impact at Latin America’s Largest Microsoft Community Conference
A Historic Gathering for the Microsoft CommunityMVP Conf 2025 was a milestone for the Microsoft community in Latin America, bringing together 3,000 attendees across six Brazilian cities.Beyond technology, MVP Conf 2025 had a strong social impact.
28/11/2025
Replace your VPN — Global Secure Access in Microsoft Entra
Where, on your domain controllers, you can install a Private Access sensor which redirects authentication traffic to Microsoft Entra for Conditional Access checks prior to the DC issuing Kerberos tickets to access the resource.On the right, the Global Secure Access Client shows network traffic traversing out to Microsoft Entra service, and I don’t have the Global Secure Access Client enabled just yet.We can also defend against prompt injection attacks where users try to bypass AI system guidelines.
28/11/2025
Addressing .Net EOL installations for Windows Admins
TL; DR: Installing the latest .NET runtime on a server does not upgrade existing applications that are built on unsupported versions (for example, anything older than .NET 8 as of Nov 2025). Applications must be explicitly upgraded through a full development lifecycle—retargeting the project to a supported framework, updating dependencies, rebuilding, testing, and redeploying.
28/11/2025
Azure App Service AI Scenarios: Complete Sample with AI Foundry Integration
This sample application demonstrates how to implement various AI scenarios on Azure App Service using Azure AI Foundry. It provides production-ready code that you can integrate into your existing Flask applications by copying the AIPlaygroundCode package and following the integration steps. Ideal for: Developers looking to add AI capabilities to existing Flask applications, learn Azure AI Foundry integration patterns, and implement enterprise-grade AI fe...
28/11/2025
Function Calling with Small Language Models
With this, we have ability to transform small language models from passive text generators into intelligent agents that can:The model calls this function to get the weather data. it contacts OpenWeatherMap API, gets real weather data and returns it as a python dictionaryMCP is an open standard that provides pre-built, standardized servers for common tools.
28/11/2025
Upcoming Live Stream: Building AI Agents with the AI Toolkit & Microsoft Foundry
We’re at a moment where generative AI is shifting from single-prompt interactions to agents that can process visuals, store memory, and act.That’s exactly what we’re doing in my upcoming live stream on Building AI Agents with the AI Toolkit & Microsoft Foundry — a hands-on walkthrough of the full lab experience from Microsoft Ignite 2025!This session is designed for developers, makers, and anyone curious about how multimodal agents get from idea to working prototype.
28/11/2025
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeekMath-V2: The Open Weights Maths Model That Scored 118/120 on Putnam 2024
How can an AI system prove complex olympiad level math problems in clear natural language while also checking that its own reasoning is actually correct? DeepSeek AI has released DeepSeekMath-V2, an open weights large language model that is optimized for natural language theorem proving with self verification. The model is built on DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp-Base, runs as […] The post
28/11/2025
Step-by-Step Guide: Route Azure SQL Audit Logs to Multiple Log Analytics Workspaces
Scenario:Many organizations need to route audit logs from Azure SQL Database to more than one Log Analytics workspace. Enable Auditing to Log Analytics WorkspaceConfiguring multiple diagnostic settings allows you to send Azure SQL Database audit logs to several Log Analytics workspaces.
28/11/2025
A Coding Implementation for an Agentic AI Framework that Performs Literature Analysis, Hypothesis Generation, Experimental Planning, Simulation, and Scientific Reporting
In this tutorial, we build a complete scientific discovery agent step by step and experience how each component works together to form a coherent research workflow. We begin by loading our literature corpus, constructing retrieval and LLM modules, and then assembling agents that search papers, generate hypotheses, design experiments, and produce structured reports. Through snippets […] The post
28/11/2025
Transforming SAP for the Intelligent Enterprise with Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and AI
Why SAP on Azure Matters: Azure gives SAP systems the performance, stability, and global reach they need. It also includes built-in tools for analytics, AI, governance, and security, which are all essential for modern businesses. Microsoft’s documentation on SAP workloads in Azure explains this broader modernization vision: Get started with SAP and Microsoft integrat...
27/11/2025
Microsoft palkitsee Suomen kumppaneitaan Vuoden kumppani 2025 -tunnustuksilla
Microsoft on jälleen palkinnut teknologiakumppaneitaan Suomessa ja globaalisti. Microsoftin Vuoden kumppani Suomessa -tunnustuksen sai tänä vuonna Vivicta, joka on erinomainen esimerkki innovatiivisesta ja asiakaslähtöisestä työstä asiakkaiden digitalisaation edistämiseksi.Lisäksi tunnustuksia jaettiin seitsemässä paikallisessa kategoriassa. Microsoftin ekosysteemiin kuuluu Suomessa 3000 kumppaniyritystä. ”Microsoftin kumppaniekosysteemi Suomessa on ainutla...
27/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned#9: How to Stay Informed About Planned Maintenance and Alerts
Co‑authored with HaiderZ-MSFT Symptoms Customer reported no visibility into the timing of planned maintenance. Uncertainty about how to receive alerts or verify maintenance status. Root Cause Azure sends
27/11/2025
Unlocking Your First AI Solution on Azure: Practical Paths for Developers of All Backgrounds
Over the past several months, I’ve spent hundreds of hours working directly with teams—from small startups to mid-market innovators—who share the same aspiration: “We want to use AI, but where do we start?” This question comes up everywhere. It crosses industries, geographies, skill levels, and team sizes. And as developers, we often feel the pressure to “solve AI” end-to-end—model...
27/11/2025
Background tasks in .NET
What is a Background Task? A background task (or background service) is work that runs behind the scenes in an application without blocking the main user flow and often without direct user interaction. Think of it as a worker or
27/11/2025
OceanBase Releases seekdb: An Open Source AI Native Hybrid Search Database for Multi-model RAG and AI Agents
AI applications rarely deal with one clean table. They mix user profiles, chat logs, JSON metadata, embeddings, and sometimes spatial data. Most teams answer this with a patchwork of an OLTP database, a vector store, and a search engine. OceanBase released seekdb, an open source AI focused database (under the Apache 2.0 license). seekdb is […] The post
27/11/2025
From Zero to Hero: Building a Production-Ready SIP Gateway for Azure Voice Live
Introduction Voice technology is transforming how we interact with machines, making conversations with AI feel more natural than ever before. With the public beta release of the Voice Live API developers now have the tools to create low-latency, multimodal voice experiences in their apps, opening up endless possibilities for innovation. Gone are the days when building a voice bot required stitching together multiple models for transcription, inference, and text-t...
27/11/2025
Exploring USB4 in Windows Device Portal
OverviewUSB4™ brings high-speed connectivity and advanced tunneling capabilities to modern Windows devices. To help developers and IT professionals visualize and manage USB4 topologies, Windows provides the USB4 domain viewer via the Windows device portal. A demo of USB4 Domain Viewer in Windows Device Portal.
27/11/2025
Observability for the Age of Generative AI
Every generation of computing brings new challenges in how we monitor and trust our systems. With the rise of Generative AI, applications are no longer static code—they’re living systems that plan, reason, call tools, and make choices dynamically. Traditional observability, built for servers an...
27/11/2025
Guide for Architecting Azure-Databricks: Design to Deployment
Author's: Chris Walk cwalk, Dan Johnson danjohn1234, Eduardo dos Santos
26/11/2025
Azure Skilling at Microsoft Ignite 2025
The energy at Microsoft Ignite was unmistakable. Developers, architects, and technical decision-makers converged in San Francisco to explore the latest innovations in cloud technology, AI applications, and data platforms. Beyond the keynotes and product announcements was something even more valuable: an integrated skilling ecosystem designed to transform how you build with Azure. This year Azure Skilling at Microsoft Ignite 2025 brought together distinct learning experiences, over 150+...
26/11/2025
Getting Started with Copilot Studio: Your PAA & FAQ Guide
What is Microsoft Copilot Studio?Microsoft Copilot Studio is a low-code, graphical tool within the Power Platform used for building and conversational bots. It empowers users, even those without extensive technical backgrounds, to create sophisticated logic and connect to various data sources and services using prebuilt or custom plugins.Is Copilot Studio easy to use for beginners?Yes Copilot Studio is designed to be easy for beginners.
26/11/2025
App Assure Powers Seamless Transitions for the new Outlook
Microsoft is continually evolving its products to deliver greater functionality, stronger security, and better experiences for users. That evolution is now underway for Outlook as we transition from classic Outlook to the new Outlook for Windows, a move that accelerates access to innovations like Copilot and other AI-native tools essential for success in today’s business landscape. Users ar...
26/11/2025
Best Practices for Migrating COTS Applications to Microsoft Azure
Understanding the Nature of COTS Migrations Migrating Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications to Microsoft Azure requires more care than a standard application migration. These workloads usually depend on strict vendor requirements, fixed upgrade cycles, licensing limitations, and specific operating systems or databases. Because of this, the first step in any COTS migration is a detailed discussion with the software vendor to confirm what Azure services, operating...
26/11/2025
Ask the Windows experts at Tech Community Live
Join us December 2 for a Windows edition of Tech Community Live. Together, my colleagues across Windows will be answering your questions on the new features and capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite and in recent months. This event is your opportunity to engage directly with the engineering teams behind the features and get the information you need to keep your updates flowing and your deployments progressing.
26/11/2025
Medical imaging embeddings bake-off: How Microsoft’s MedImageInsight compares to leading models
Note: This post reports performance results on a specific evaluation dataset collected from real clinical data. These results do not constitute general clinical performance claims. This post shares methods and principles that can guide clinical AI development but are not meant for direct use in clinical settings without validation. You must validate performance on your own data, ensure models fit within your regulatory processes. You are fully responsible...
26/11/2025
Tencent Hunyuan Releases HunyuanOCR: a 1B Parameter End to End OCR Expert VLM
Tencent Hunyuan has released HunyuanOCR, a 1B parameter vision language model that is specialized for OCR and document understanding. The model is built on Hunyuan’s native multimodal architecture and runs spotting, parsing, information extraction, visual question answering, and text image translation through a single end to end pipeline. HunyuanOCR is a lightweight alternative to general […] The post
26/11/2025
The Journey of a Token: What Really Happens Inside a Transformer
Large language models (LLMs) are based on the transformer architecture, a complex deep neural network whose input is a sequence of token embeddings.
26/11/2025
Securing Azure AI Applications: A Deep Dive into Emerging Threats
Why AI Security Can’t Be Ignored? Generative AI is rapidly reshaping how enterprises operate—accelerating decision-making, enhancing customer experiences, and powering intelligent automation across critical workflows. But as organizations adopt these capabilities at scale, a new challenge emerges: AI introduces security risks that traditi...
26/11/2025
Building personalized experiences - Ichicraft - SharePoint Partner Showcase
We are excited to share a new episode on our partner showcase series focused on SharePoint in Microsoft 365. In this post, we focus on Ichicraft. Ichicraft crafts digital experiences with precision, personality, and purpose. They are a boutique software company on a mission to make the Microsoft 365 workplace feel more human. Rooted in the Netherlands and driven by deta...
26/11/2025
Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX.2: A 32B Flow Matching Transformer for Production Image Pipelines
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.2, its second generation image generation and editing system. FLUX.2 targets real world creative workflows such as marketing assets, product photography, design layouts, and complex infographics, with editing support up to 4 megapixels and strong control over layout, logos, and typography. FLUX.2 product family and FLUX.2 [dev] The FLUX.2 family […] The post
26/11/2025
How to Implement Functional Components of Transformer and Mini-GPT Model from Scratch Using Tinygrad to Understand Deep Learning Internals
In this tutorial, we explore how to build neural networks from scratch using Tinygrad while remaining fully hands-on with tensors, autograd, attention mechanisms, and transformer architectures. We progressively build every component ourselves, from basic tensor operations to multi-head attention, transformer blocks, and, finally, a working mini-GPT model. Through each stage, we observe how Tinygrad’s simplicity […] The post
26/11/2025
Pretrain a BERT Model from Scratch
This article is divided into three parts; they are: • Creating a BERT Model the Easy Way • Creating a BERT Model from Scratch with PyTorch • Pre-training the BERT Model If your goal is to create a BERT model so that you can train it on your own data, using the Hugging Face `transformers` library is the easiest way to get started.
26/11/2025
ICYMI: Watch replays of Microsoft Entra sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2025
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Microsoft Security took center stage with a clear message: secure access is foundational for the AI-driven future. Across keynotes, breakout sessions, and demos, we showcased innovations that help organizations confidently expand Zero Trust strategies to include AI agents, apps, and identities. We hope you were able to be there or tune in live; but if not, we’ve pulled this article together with all the best replay links for identity and network access professionals....
26/11/2025
Copilot Your Holidays
Holiday-stress creeping up on you? You're not alone! Between travel, grocery shopping, and wrapping up work, it’s easy to feel like a gingerbread house on the verge of collapse. Good news: you've stumbled across Copilot Your Holidays! A podcast-style series where three Microsoft folks share simple ways to use Copilot to make the season smoother. Join us each week for Copilot tips, tricks, and a hearty laugh along the way 🙂.
25/11/2025
Why Your Organization Should Set Up Asset Libraries in SharePoint (and Enable Them for Copilot)
In today’s fast-paced digital workplace, brand consistency and productivity are critical. Yet, many organizations struggle with scattered images, outdated templates, and employees spending time hunting for approved assets. This is where SharePoint Organization Asset Libraries (OALs) come in—and when integrated with Microsoft Copilot, they become a game-changer. Watch the following two videos on setup in SharePoint and Copilot.
25/11/2025
Salesforce AI Research Introduces xRouter: A Reinforcement Learning Router for Cost Aware LLM Orchestration
When your application can call many different LLMs with very different prices and capabilities, who should decide which one answers each request? Salesforce AI research team introduces ‘xRouter’, a tool-calling–based routing system that targets this gap with a reinforcement learning based router and learns when to answer locally and when to call external models, while […] The post
25/11/2025
K-Means Cluster Evaluation with Silhouette Analysis
Clustering models in machine learning must be assessed by how well they separate data into meaningful groups with distinctive characteristics.
25/11/2025
Agent0: A Fully Autonomous AI Framework that Evolves High-Performing Agents without External Data through Multi-Step Co-Evolution
Large language models need huge human datasets, so what happens if the model must create all its own curriculum and teach itself to use tools? A team of researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill, Salesforce Research and Stanford University introduce ‘Agent0’, a fully autonomous framework that evolves high-performing agents without external data through multi-step co-evolution and seamless […] The post
25/11/2025
How to Build a Neuro-Symbolic Hybrid Agent that Combines Logical Planning with Neural Perception for Robust Autonomous Decision-Making
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to combine the strengths of symbolic reasoning with neural learning to build a powerful hybrid agent. We focus on creating a neuro-symbolic architecture that uses classical planning for structure, rules, and goal-directed behavior, while neural networks handle perception and action refinement. As we walk through the code, we see […] The post
25/11/2025
Microsoft AI Releases Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use
How do we safely let an AI agent handle real web tasks like booking, searching, and form filling directly on our own devices without sending everything to the cloud? Microsoft Research has released Fara-7B, a 7 billion parameter agentic small language model designed specifically for computer use. It is an open weight Computer Use Agent […] The post Microsof...
24/11/2025
The Complete Guide to Docker for Machine Learning Engineers
Machine learning models often behave differently across environments.
24/11/2025
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Elastic-12B: A Single AI Model that Gives You 6B/9B/12B Variants without Extra Training Cost
Why are AI dev teams still training and storing multiple large language models for different deployment needs when one elastic model can generate several sizes at the same cost? NVIDIA is collapsing the usual ‘model family’ stack into a single training job. NVIDIA AI team releases Nemotron-Elastic-12B, a 12B parameter reasoning model that embeds nested […] The post
24/11/2025
AI Interview Series #3: Explain Federated Learning
Question: “You’re an ML engineer at a fitness company like Fitbit or Apple Health. Millions of users generate sensitive sensor data every day — heart rate, sleep cycles, step counts, workout patterns, etc. You want to build a model that predicts health risk or recommends personalized workouts. But due to privacy laws (GDPR, HIPAA), none […] The post AI Interview Series ...
24/11/2025
Preparing Data for BERT Training
This article is divided into four parts; they are: • Preparing Documents • Creating Sentence Pairs from Document • Masking Tokens • Saving the Training Data for Reuse Unlike decoder-only models, BERT's pretraining is more complex.
24/11/2025
BERT Models and Its Variants
This article is divided into two parts; they are: • Architecture and Training of BERT • Variations of BERT BERT is an encoder-only model.
22/11/2025
From Shannon to Modern AI: A Complete Information Theory Guide for Machine Learning
In 1948, Claude Shannon published a paper that changed how we think about information forever.
20/11/2025
General Availability announcement of Backup/Restore capabilities in SQL Server 2025
Over the past several months, we’ve heard from countless customers who are eager for more robust options to protect, compress, and safeguard their SQL Server data. Since introducing these features in public preview, organizations of all sizes have validated their value in real-world workloads and provided invaluable feedback. Today, we are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of three powerful SQL Server 2025 features:
19/11/2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Kumppanit AI-murroksen eturintamassa
Microsoft Ignite 2025 toi selkeän viestin: tekoäly ja agenttiteknologiat eivät ole enää tulevaisuuden lupauksia, vaan tämän päivän kilpailuetu. Yritykset, jotka omaksuvat AI:n strategisesti ja laajasti, erottuvat markkinoilla – ja kumppaneilla on tässä ratkaiseva rooli. Asiakkaat etsivät luotettavia asiantuntijoita, jotka eivät ainoastaan myy AI-ratkaisuja, vaan myös elävät AI-transformaatiota omassa toiminnassaan. Ignite esitteli uuden Fr...
19/11/2025
ESPC25 Conference: December 1-4
ESPC is Europe’s premier Microsoft 365 and AI conference. Don’t miss this year’s community conference in Dublin, December 1-4. Hear from more than 120 speakers, connect with Microsoft experts, and achieve more with Microsoft 365 and AI. Use discount code ESPC25MSPART for €200 off. Secure your spot at ESPC25 by booking now
19/11/2025
Pure Storage Cloud, Azure Native evolves at Microsoft Ignite!
The Azure Storage team has heavily invested in our partner ecosystem to meet all customer data storage needs and make it easier to migrate any application workload to Azure. You will find our complete list in the validated partner catalog (link below) and find partner solutions conveniently located in Storage Center on the Azure Portal. Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud is the latest example of our deep investment in partners. ...
19/11/2025
Sensitivity labels preservation and SharePoint ACLs in Azure AI Search
We’re introducing new enterprise security capabilities in Azure AI Search and knowledge bases to help you deliver more trusted, policy-aligned knowledge retrieval for RAG apps and agentic applications. This...
19/11/2025
Managing Multiple Deployment Stacks in Azure Bicep: Patterns and Best Practices
Deployment Stacks: Deployment Stacks are a logical grouping of Azure resources defined using Bicep or ARM. When you deploy a stack: Azure tracks which resources belong to that stack You can update or delete resources as a group G...
19/11/2025
How to get a free Azure SQL Database or Managed Instance
Next to the performance and security proven engine, with Azure SQL solutions you’re getting dozens of other benefits, such as auto-scaling, auto-patching/maintenance, auto-backups and built-in HA. Free Azure SQL offers fully managed resources with zero cost and zero commitment. There’re two options ...
19/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 19, 2025
Learn about 80 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
19/11/2025
Azure Copilot Migration Agent - Bringing Agentic Migration and Modernization to life
Enterprises today need more than speed they need confidence. Migration projects often stall because of complexity, fragmented tools, and unclear ROI. With Migration Agent in Azure Copilot, we’re changing that equation. This new capability brings AI-driven intelligence to every stage of migration and modernization, helping you move from discovery to execution in hours, not weeks. and completing the journey with confidence. Migration is no longer just about moving workloads. It’s about u...
19/11/2025
Why Decision Trees Fail (and How to Fix Them)
Decision tree-based models for predictive machine learning tasks like classification and regression are undoubtedly rich in advantages — such as their ability to capture nonlinear relationships among features and their intuitive interpretability that makes it easy to trace decisions.
19/11/2025
Build and connect Microsoft Foundry agents to MongoDB Atlas with new native integrations
MongoDB Atlas is a leading document database that’s rapidly gaining traction among Azure customers due to various deep integrations available across Microsoft platforms. In Aug 2025, we announced the General Availability (GA) of native integration for MongoDB Atlas — a milestone that marked a new era for developers and enterprises building AI-powered applications on Azure. Alongside ...
19/11/2025
General Availability: Granular RBAC in Azure Monitor Logs
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure Monitor Logs! This capability enables you to set fine-grained data access control at the row level, giving you more flexibility and security when managing log data. Back in May 2025,
19/11/2025
Enabling Private Connectivity for Microsoft Fabric: A Practical Guide
As an Infra Architect working with large, security-sensitive enterprise environments, one principle consistently guides infrastructure architects: If a platform can't operate inside a private network boundary, it won’t make it to production. This became very real when our Data Engineering team sent me a simple-looking request:
19/11/2025
Introducing Microsoft’s Network Operations Agent – A Telco framework for Autonomous Networks
How NOA Works: Multi-Agent Intelligence with Human Oversight At its core, NOA is a multi-agent system tailored for telecom operations. It hosts a suite of specialized agents, each with a focused ...
19/11/2025
Reimagining Network Operations: How Microsoft NetAI Tackles Hyperscale Challenges
The Business Imperative: Why Network Operations Must Change Modern network operators face a perfect storm of challenges: Exponential Growth in Events and Maintenance Network events and maintenance activities are increasing at an unprecedented rate. According to Microsoft’s analysis, weekly network events are projected to grow from hundreds to thousands over the next five years. Maintena...
19/11/2025
Azure ND GB300 v6 now Generally Available - Hyper-optimized for Generative and Agentic AI workloads
We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of ND GB300 v6 virtual machines, delivering the next leap in AI infrastructure. On 10/09, we shared the delivery of the first at-scale production cluster with more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs connected through...
19/11/2025
Announcing Deployment capabilities (preview) in Azure Copilot
What's new? Today, we are excited to announce the Deployment Agent for Azure Copilot, designed to make infrastructure planning and deployment faster, smarter, and easier. The Deployment Agent acts as your dedicated cloud architecture assistant, leveraging Azure’s Well-Architected Framework (WAF) ...
19/11/2025
Microsoft Foundry on Windows Server
As organizations embrace AI, new opportunities exist for Windows Server customers who want to leverage on-premises AI. While Azure remains the best pl...
19/11/2025
Accelerating Enterprise AI with Microsoft Foundry
Today at Ignite 2025, the spotlight shone brightly on Microsoft Foundry the unified AI platform empowering enterprises to build, deploy, and govern intelligent agents at scale. New features released today are designed to enhance model accessibility, agent sophistication, and enterprise-grade reliability. Below is a deep dive into these powerful updates. Anthropic’s Claude Models Join Foundry
19/11/2025
SQL Server 2025 Integration Services General Availability
Microsoft.Data.SqlClient offers a modern, secure, and future-ready data access solution for SQL Server and Azure SQL.Integration Services support will be included in the upcoming CU.Integration Services features in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS IS)
18/11/2025
How to Build an Agentic Deep Reinforcement Learning System with Curriculum Progression, Adaptive Exploration, and Meta-Level UCB Planning
In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic Deep Reinforcement Learning system that guides an agent to learn not only actions within an environment but also how to choose its own training strategies. We design a Dueling Double DQN learner, introduce a curriculum with increasing difficulty, and integrate multiple exploration modes that adapt as training […] The post
18/11/2025
SQL Server Management Studio 22 (GA) supporting SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
SQL Server Management Studio 22 generally availability has been released. SSMS 22 GA version is recommended to use with Integration Services, as ...
18/11/2025
xAI’s Grok 4.1 Pushes Toward Higher Emotional Intelligence, Lower Hallucinations and Tighter Safety Controls
How do you build an AI assistant that feels emotionally intelligent and reliable to humans, instead of just making a bigger model? Meet Grok 4.1, xAI’s latest large language model and it now powers Grok across grok.com, X and the mobile consumer apps. According to xAI team, the model is available to all users and […] The post
18/11/2025
Unlocking Client-Side Configuration at Scale with Azure App Configuration and Azure Front Door
As modern apps shift more logic to the browser, Azure App Configuration now brings dynamic configuration directly to client-side applications. Through its integration with Azure Front Door, developers can deliver configuration to thousands or millions of clients with CDN-scale performance while avoiding the need to expose secrets or maintain custom proxy layers. This capability is especially important for AI-powered and agentic client...
18/11/2025
Windows Hardware Compatibility Program - Guidance for Windows 11, version 26H1 Release
Building on the recent WIP Blog post, we’re releasing WHCP and HLK for Windows 11, version 26H1 to support partners working on engineering efforts. This release is focused on enabling new platforms and is not intended for existing or previously released silicon. For mainstream products, continue using <...
18/11/2025
New Portal Experience for Feature Management
Feature flags have become an essential tool for modern software development, enabling teams to deploy code safely, control feature rollouts, and experiment with new functionality without the risk of breaking production environments. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into applications— from LLM-powered features to model version management— the need for safe, controlled deployments has never been more critical. The previous experience forced you to make a decision upfront: should I create a...
18/11/2025
December Prompt-a-thon for Government Customers
Power Your AI Transformation: Government Copilot Prompt-a-thon As we wrap up an incredible year of innovation, we’re thrilled to invite you to our fifth Copilot Prompt‑a‑thon of 2025—a hands‑on experience that’s transforming how government teams work. This event isn’t just about learning prompts; it’s about collaborating directly with Microsoft coaches, exploring real mission sc...
18/11/2025
Announcing Kubernetes Center (Preview) On Azure Portal
Today, we’re excited to introduce the Kubernetes Center in the Azure portal, a new experience to simplify how customers manage, monitor, and optimize Azure Kubernetes Services environments at scale. The Kubernetes Center provides a unified view across all clusters, intelligent insights, and streamlined workflows that help platform teams stay in control while enabling developers to move fast. As Kubernetes adoption accelerates, many teams face growing challenges in managing clusters and...
18/11/2025
Agentic Applications on Azure Container Apps with Microsoft Foundry
By combining Azure Container Apps with the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) and Microsoft Foundry, developers can run containerized agents on ACA while using Foundry to visualize and monitor how those agents behave.In this blog, we’ll walk through how to build an agent running on Azure Container Apps using Microsoft Agent Framework and OpenTelemetry, and then connect its telemetry to Microsoft Foundry so you can see your ACA-hosted agent directly in the Foundry monitoring experience.Connect the resource to your AI Foundry project.
18/11/2025
OracleDatabase@Azure expands footprint to 31 regions and strengthens security with Azure Key Vault
With plans to bring two more regions online in the next three months, Oracle Database@Azure will continue to lead the industry with 33 regions around the world – more than any other hyperscaler.Oracle Database@azure is now live in 31 regions worldwideOracle Database@Azure is live in North Central, South India, and France South, giving enterprises more flexibility and control over global deployments of their business-critical applications.
18/11/2025
Protect patient privacy across languages with the de-identification service's preview expansion
Machine learning and analytics are transforming healthcare by streamlining clinical workflows, powering AI models and unlocking new insights from patient data. These innovations are fueled by textual data rich in Protected Health Information (PHI). To be used for research, innovation and operational improvements, this data must be responsibly de-identified to protect patient privacy. Manual de-identification can be slow, expensive, and error-prone, creating bottlene...
18/11/2025
Training a Tokenizer for BERT Models
This article is divided into two parts; they are: • Picking a Dataset • Training a Tokenizer To keep things simple, we'll use English text only.
18/11/2025
Removing barriers to migrating databases to Azure with Striim’s Unlimited Database Migration program
Alok Pareek, co-founder and Executive Vice President of Product and Engineering at Striim Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President of Databases at Microsoft Every modernization strategy starts with data. It’s what enables advanced analytics and AI agents today, and prepares enterprises for what’s to come in th...
18/11/2025
Announcing Public Preview of Window Server 2025 on Azure Kubernetes Service
We are excited to announce the public preview of Windows Server 2025 support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - delivering the latest security, performance, and compatibility improvements for our customers. You can now deploy node pools running Windows Server 2025 alongside those running Windows Server 2022, Azure Linux, and Ubuntu. With the new Windows container portability functionality introduced in Windows Server 2025, you can also run your Windows Server 2022-based containers on Windows...
18/11/2025
Announcing Advanced Kubernetes Troubleshooting Agent Capabilities (preview) in Azure Copilot
What’s new? Today, we're announcing Kubernetes troubleshooting agent capabilities in Az...
18/11/2025
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro turns sparse MoE and 1M token context into a practical engine for multimodal agentic workloads
How do we move from language models that only answer prompts to systems that can reason over million token contexts, understand real world signals, and reliably act as agents on our behalf? Google just released Gemini 3 family with Gemini 3 Pro as the centerpiece that positions as a major step toward more general AI […] The post
18/11/2025
General Availability: Large Message Support in Azure Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs is a cloud-native service that streams millions of events per second with minimal latency, fully compatible with Apache Kafka and requiring no code changes for existing Kafka workloads. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Large Message Support in Azure Event Hubs, enabling you to send and receive messages up to
18/11/2025
Available today: OpenAI's Sora 2 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Transform your creative workflow with AI-generated video – what it means for IT We're excited to announce that OpenAI's Sora 2—their breakthrough video and audio generation model—is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This integration brings professional-grade AI video creation directly into your familiar Microsoft 365 environment, empowering users to generate compelling video content while maintaining the enterprise security and compliance standards you expect from Microsoft.
18/11/2025
Announcing General Availability of the mssql-python Driver
We’re thrilled to announce that the mssql-python driver is now Generally Available! 🎉 This milestone marks a major step forward in delivering a modern, high-performance, and developer-friendly experience for Python developers working with SQL Server, Azure SQL and SQL databases in Fabric. Why mssql-python? The mssql-python driver is a DB-API 2.0 compliant driver designed from the ground up to provide speed, simplicity, and security for Python applicati...
18/11/2025
Unlocking Storage Optimizations: Smart Tiering for Blobs and ADLS in Azure Storage
We are excited to introduce the public preview of smart tier for Azure Blob and Azure Data Lake Storage. Smart tier is a fully managed, automated data tiering solution that takes the guesswork and manual effort out of optimizing your storage costs. Smart tier continuously analyzes your data’s access patterns and automatically moves objects between the hot, cool, and cold tiers. Smart tier will keep regularly accessed objects on the hot capacity tier to optimize transaction costs and mo...
18/11/2025
Introducing Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode (vMode)
Now in Public Preview Windows Admin Center has long been a favorite tool for IT pros, trusted to manage
18/11/2025
Azure Databricks Genie integration with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry is now live!
This blog was co-authored by Toussaint Webb, Databricks We’re excited to announce the Public Preview availability of AI/BI Genie
18/11/2025
Steer length, tone, style, and images when creating a PowerPoint presentation with Copilot
Hi, Insiders! We’re Victoria Tran, Jess Kwok, and Shea Tuli, and we’re Product Managers on the PowerPoint team. We’re excited to share an update with you that allows you to steer your presentation length, tone, style, and images when creating presentations with Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint for Windows, for Mac, and for the web. Steer length, tone, style, an...
18/11/2025
📢 Agent Loop - New Set of AI Features Arrive in Public Preview
Today at Ignite, we announced the General Availability of Agent Loop in Logic Apps Standard—bringing production-ready agentic automation to every customer. But GA is just the beginning. We’re also releasing a broad set of new and powerful AI-first capabilities in Public Preview that dramatically expand what developers can build: run agents in the Consumption SKU ,bring your own models through APIM AI Gateway, cal...
18/11/2025
🎉Announcing General Availability of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps
Transforming Business Automation with Intelligent, Collaborative Multi-Agentic workflows! TL;DR Agent Loop is now Generally Available in Azure Logic Apps Standard, turning Logic Apps platform into a complete multi-agentic automation system. Build AI agents that work alongside workflows and humans, secured with enterprise-grade identity and access controls, deployed using your existing CI/CD pipelines. Thousands of customers have already...
18/11/2025
SQL Server 2025: Deeply Integrated and Feature-rich on Linux
SQL Server continues to power mission-critical workloads across enterprises, and with SQL Server 2025, we’re delivering innovations that redefine performance, security, developer experience, AI innovation and flexibility along with additional features tailored for Linux environments. Momentum on SQL Server for Linux The adoption of SQL Server on Linux has been phenomenal. The public preview of SQL Server 2025 has seen remarkable adoption, with Linux based deploy...
18/11/2025
Announcing Public Preview of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps Consumption
We’re excited to announce a major leap forward in democratizing AI-powered business process automation: Agent Loop is now available in Azure Logic Apps Consumption, bringing advanced AI agent capabilities to a broader audience with a frictionless, pay-as-you-go experience. What’s New? Agent Loop, previously available only in Logic Apps Standard, is now available in Consumption logic apps, providing developers,...
18/11/2025
📢Announcing MCP Server Support for Logic Apps Agent Loop
At Ignite, we announced that Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps Standard now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling agents to discover and call external tools through an open, standardized interface. This brings powerful, flexible tool extensibility to both conversational and autonomous agents. MCP support gives agents a common lan...
18/11/2025
🔐Enabling API Key Authentication for Logic Apps MCP Servers
We previously announced support for building Logic Apps MCP servers. This capability comes in a couple forms including via the wizard hosted in API Center and through manual configurations inside an existing Logic App. When we initially shipped this f...
18/11/2025
Reduce latency and enhance resilience with Azure Files zonal placement
We are pleased to announce the General Availability of zonal placement for Azure Files Premium LRS in select regions. Zonal placement enables you to pin Azure Files storage accounts to a specific Availability Zone within a region — giving you better control over data locality, resilience, and lower latency for your workloads. Benefits of zonal placement Azure Files provides both local-redundant storage (LRS) and zone-redundant storage (ZRS) options today....
18/11/2025
Host remote MCP servers on Azure Functions
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers allow AI agents to access external tools, data, and systems, greatly extending the capability and power of agents. When you’re ready to expose your MCP servers externally, within your organization or to the world, it’s important that the servers are run in a secure, scalable, and reliable environment. Azure Functions provides such a robust platform for hosting your remote MCP servers, offering high scalability with the
18/11/2025
Announcing Elastic MCP Server in Microsoft Foundry Tool Catalog
Introduction The future of enterprise AI is agentic - driven by intelligent, context-aware agents that deliver real business value. Microsoft Foundry is committed to enabling developers with the tools and integrations they need to build, deploy, and govern these advanced AI solutions. Today, we are excited t...
18/11/2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Empowering Innovation with MDEP
Joining a Global Community of Innovators We’re thrilled to be part of Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco, CA, where thousands of technology leaders, partners, and customers gather to shape the future. This year’s event is centered on AI-driven transformation, secure platforms, and connected ecosystems, and MDEP stands at the forefront of that vision. Ignite is more than just a showcase for us: It’s a valuable opportunity to connect with partners, exchange insights, and demonstrat...
18/11/2025
Partner Case Study | Tiger Analytics
Organizations need to adopt more flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solutions to keep up with the evolving landscape of data analytics. Traditional on-premises systems, while robust and reliable, often face limitations in handling the increasing volume and velocity of data. To thrive, organizations must modernize their critical applications, replacing legacy systems with cloud-native solutions that offer better scalability, fault tolerance, and security. Microsoft partner Tiger Ana...
18/11/2025
Cloud Native Identity with Azure Files: Entra-only Secure Access for the Modern Enterprise
As organizations accelerate their cloud-first journeys, the ability to deliver secure, seamless identity and access management for storage in the cloud is now a game-changer. We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Entra-only identities support with Azure Files SMB. With native Entra ID (identities are created and managed entirely in the cloud, with no reliance on on-premises Active Directory or hybrid setups) authentication for Azure Files SMB...
18/11/2025
Announcing the Preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 VMs based on the 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor
Authored by Misha Bansal, Product Manager, Azure Compute We are excited to announce the public preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 and Ebdsv6 Virtual Machines, powered by 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processors. These VMs deliver significantly higher remote storage performance, scaling up to 800,000 IOPS and 14 Gbps of remote disk throughput featured by
18/11/2025
Announcing General Availability of Scheduled Actions for Azure Virtual Machines
Managing VMs at scale in Azure can be a pain. Subscription throttling can prevent your operations from being received, and having to track and retry intermittent failures adds extra overhead. Scheduled Actions reduces the complexity of managing concurrent API requests in Azure at scale and allows for scheduling actions at a time in the future. What is Scheduled Actions? Scheduled Actions is a separate resource provider that sits above our REST API and makes calls...
18/11/2025
Announcing Public Preview: Auditing for Fabric SQL Database
We’re excited to announce the public preview of Auditing for Fabric SQL Database—a powerful feature designed to help organizations strengthen security, ensure compliance, and gain deep operational insights into their data environments. Why Auditing Matters
18/11/2025
Integrating Azure Application Gateway v2 with Azure API Management for secure and scalable API
Why Application Gateway v2 + Azure API Management? - Layer-7 routing with path-based rules, host headers, URL rewrites, and WAF protection (OWASP Core Rule Set). - Azure API Management provides API abstraction, versioning, throttling, caching, JWT validation, and per-API policies. - Combined, App Gateway becomes the internet-facing secure entry point and Azure API Management the control plane for API governance. Scenario: Internet...
18/11/2025
Announcing the public preview of StandardV2 NAT Gateway and StandardV2 public IPs
In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, organizations are innovating faster and delivering cloud native experiences at global scale. With this acceleration comes higher expectations: applications must remain always available. An outage in a single availability zone can have a ripple effect on application performance, user experience, and business continuity. To safeguard against zone outages, making your cloud architecture zone resilient isn't an option—it’s ...
18/11/2025
Compose for Agents on Azure Container Apps and Serverless GPU (public preview)
Empowering intelligent applications The next wave of AI is agentic
18/11/2025
🔐Secure AI Agent Knowledge Retrieval - Introducing Security Filters in Agent Loop
Building secure, permission-aware AI agents with Agent Loop We’re excited to introduce a new capability in Azure Logic Apps that enables document-level authorization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows. With security filters, you can now ensure that agents only retrieve and respond with information users are authorized to view. Why Security Trimming Matters In RAG-enabled workflows, agents often retrieve know...
18/11/2025
Enhancing Resiliency in Azure Compute Gallery
In today's cloud-driven world, ensuring the resiliency and recoverability of critical resources is top of mind for organizations of all sizes. Azure Compute Gallery (ACG) continues to evolve, introducing robust features that safeguard your virtual machine (VM) images and application artifacts. In this blog post, we'll explore two key resiliency innovations: the new Soft Delete feature (currently in preview) and Zonal Redundant Storage (ZRS) as the default storage type for image versions. Toge...
18/11/2025
Azure Functions Ignite 2025 Update
Azure Functions is redefining event-driven applications and high-scale APIs in 2025, accelerating innovation for developers building the next generation of intelligent, resilient, and scalable workloads. This year, our focus has been on empowering AI and agentic scenarios: remote MCP server hosting, bulletproofing agents with Durable Functions, and first-class support for critical technologies like OpenTelemetry, .NET 10 and Aspire. With major advances in serverless Flex Consumption, enhanced...
18/11/2025
Introducing Preview of Async Scaling for App Service Plans
Have you ever attempted to deploy or scale out an App Service Plan and received a 429 response that “Not enough available reserved instance servers to satisfy this request. Currently n instances are available. If you are changing instance size you can reserve up to n instances at this moment. If you are increasing instance count then you can add extra n instances at this moment. Please get available machines and retry later.”? If so, then we have a new capability wit...
18/11/2025
AI Toolkit Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code: Ignite 2025 Update
Unlock the Latest Agentic App Capabilities—Now Available with Ignite 2025 The Ignite 2025 update delivers a major leap forward for the AI Toolkit extension pack in VS Code, introducing a unified, end-to-end environment for building, visualizing, and deploying intelligent agentic applications. This release enables developers to build and debug locally in VS Code, then deploy to the cloud with a single click. Seamlessly switch between VS Code and the Foundry portal for visualization, o...
18/11/2025
Charting the Future of SOC: Human and AI Collaboration for Better Security
Co-authors: Rajiv Bharadwaja, Principal Software Engineering ManagerAbhishek Kumar, Principal Group Manager - Security Research & Operations Security operations centers are under pressure from unprecedented scale and complexity. Speed, precision, and consistency matter more than ever, and AI is everywhere—but hype alone doesn’t solve the challenge. This blog shares our journey and insights from building autonomous AI agents for MDR operations and...
18/11/2025
Fine-Tuning Healthcare AI Models: Custom Segmentation for Your Healthcare Data
This post is part of our healthcare AI fine-tuning series: MedImageInsight Fine-Tuning - Embeddings and classification MedImageParse Fine-Tuning - Segmentation and spatial understanding (you are here)
18/11/2025
What's new in Microsoft Intune at Ignite
Welcome to Microsoft Ignite, where the future of IT is being reimagined. Today we’re unveiling how Microsoft Intune is transforming endpoint management by putting AI at its core, with assistive chat-based and agentic experiences to help you streamline operations, unify cross-service insights, and enable scalable action, tailored to your organization's needs. With Security Copilot chat embedded across Intune, you gain expert assistance to help guide you through daily...
18/11/2025
Azure Intel® TDX confidential VMs momentum
Azure’s next generation of Confidential Virtual Machines powered by 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors (code-named Emerald Rapids) with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) is out in preview now. This will help to enable organizations ...
18/11/2025
Azure delivers the first cloud VM with Intel Xeon 6 and CXL memory - now in Private Preview
Intel released their new Intel Xeon 6 6500/6700 series processor with P-cores this year. Intel Xeon 6 processors provide performance and scalability by delivering outstanding performance for transactional and analytical workloads and provide scale-up capacities of up to 64TB of memory. In addition, Intel Xeon 6 supports the new
18/11/2025
AI Gateway in Azure API Management Is Now Available in Microsoft Foundry (Preview)
For more than a decade, Azure API Management has been the trusted control plane for API governance, security, and observability on a global scale supporting more than 38,000 customers, almost 3 million APIs, and 3 trillion API requests every month. AI Gateway builds on this foundation, extending API Management’s proven governance, security, and observability model to AI workloads, including models, tools, and agents. Today, more than 1,200 enterprise customers use AI Gateway to safely operati...
18/11/2025
Announcing the Public Preview of AMLFS 20: Azure Managed Lustre New SKU for Massive AI&HPC Workloads
Sachin Sheth - Principal PDM Manager Brian Barbisch - Principal Group Software Engineering Manager Matt White - Principal Group Software Engineering Manager Brian Lepore - Principal Product Manager Wolfgang De Salvador - Senior Product Manager Ron Hogue - Senior Product...
18/11/2025
App Assure Powers Seamless Transitions for the new Outlook
Microsoft is continually evolving its products to deliver greater functionality, stronger security, and better experiences for users. That evolution is now underway for Outlook as we transition from classic Outlook to the new Outlook for Windows, a move that accelerates access to innovations like Copilot and other AI-native tools essential for success in today’s business landscape. <...
18/11/2025
Announcing General Availability: Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana
Continuing our commitment to open-source solutions, we are announcing the general availability of Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana. This service offers a powerful solution for cloud-native monitoring and visualizing all your Azure data. Dashboards with Grafana enable you to create and edit Grafana dashboards directly in the Azure portal without additional cost and less administrative overhea...
18/11/2025
Pantone’s Palette Generator enhances creative exploration with agentic AI on Azure
Color can be powerful. When creative professionals shape the mood and direction of their work, color plays a vital role because it provides context and cues for the end product or creation. For more than 60 years, creatives from all areas of design—including fashion, product, and digital—have turned to Pantone color guides to translate inspiration into precise, reproducible color choices. These guides offer a shared language for colors, as well as inspiration and communication a...
18/11/2025
Azure Linux: Driving Security in the Era of AI Innovation
Microsoft is advancing cloud and AI innovation with a clear focus on security, quality, and responsible practices. At Ignite 2025, Azure Linux reflects that commitment. As Microsoft’s ubiquitous Linux OS, it powers critical services and serves as the hub for security innovation. This year’s announcements, Azure Linux with OS Guard public preview and GA of pod sandboxing, reinforce security as one of our core priorities, helping customers build and run workloads with confidence in an increasin...
18/11/2025
Richer alt text in Word and PowerPoint, powered by generative AI
Today, I’m excited to announce a major improvement to how alt text is generated in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for Windows.Leveraging generative AI, you can write richer, more descriptive, and more context-aware image descriptions.Richer alt text in Word and PowerPoint, powered by generative AI
18/11/2025
Announcing General Availability for AccelNet on Windows Server 2025
That’s why we’re bringing Accelerated Networking (AccelNet), the same technology used in Azure, to Windows Server 2025 Datacenter.Accelerated Networking (SR‑IOV) for Windows Server 2025 Datacenter solves this by: Bypassing the virtual switch for data plane traffic using SR‑IOV, reducing CPU overhead.
18/11/2025
Announcing Network HUD: Operational Network Monitoring for Windows Server 2025
Network HUD brings real-time health monitoring to Windows Server clusters, helping you catch misconfigurations and drift before they impact performance.Network HUD simplifies this by continuously monitoring your cluster’s networking health and surfacing actionable insights.Microsoft Learn
18/11/2025
Announcing the preview of Azure Local rack aware cluster
We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Local rack aware cluster! We previously published a blog post with a sneak peek of Azure Local rack aware cluster and now, we're excited to share more details about its architecture, features, and benefits. Azure Local rack aware cluster is an advanced architecture designed to enhance fault tolerance and data distribution within an Azure Local instance. This solution enables you to cluster machines that are strategically placed across two physical racks in different rooms or buildings, connected by high bandwidth and low latency within the same location.Network architecture diagram of an Azure Local rack aware cluster instance
18/11/2025
Reimagining Data Excellence: SQL Server 2025 Accelerated by Pure Storage
The arrival of SQL Server 2025 marked a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise data management and modern AI application development from ground to cloud.Designed to transform data into actionable intelligence, it aligns perfectly with the Pure Storage mission to simplify, accelerate, and modernize data infrastructure.SQL Server 2025 calls the REST endpoint of the FlashArray system and takes a snapshot application consistent with no external tools.
18/11/2025
Build Smarter with Azure HorizonDB
Today, at Microsoft Ignite, we are announcing a new PostgreSQL database service - Azure HorizonDB.To help with database management we are introducing a set of new capabilities in PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, as well as announcing General Availability of the extension.We are excited to announce a new enhancement in the Microsoft’s state of the art vector indexing algorithm DiskANN – DiskANN Advanced Filtering.
18/11/2025
Introducing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
The new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot are dedicated agents that help users create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations—directly in chat.With dedicated Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, users can now start projects in Copilot Chat—using natural language prompts to quickly generate documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot are just the beginning.
18/11/2025
Generally Available: Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose
Next-gen General Purpose is the evolution of General Purpose service tier that brings significantly improved performance and scalability to power up your existing Azure SQL Managed Instance fleet and helps you bring more mission-critical SQL workloads to Azure.The new #SQLMINextGen General Purpose tier delivers a built-in performance upgrade available to all customers at no extra cost.The SQL Managed Instance General Purpose tier is designed with full separation of compute and storage layers.
18/11/2025
What's New in Azure App Service at #MSIgnite 2025
Azure App Service introduces a new approach to accelerate application migration and modernization at Microsoft Ignite 2025.Known as Managed Instance on Azure App Service, it enables seamless modernization of classic web apps to the cloud with minimal code changes, especially for apps with custom Windows dependencies.Other major updates include enhanced Aspire support for .NET developers on Azure App Service for Linux, new AI integration features, expanded language/runtime support, and improvements in scaling, networking, and developer experience.
18/11/2025
Stream data in near real time from SQL to Azure Event Hubs - Public preview
If near-real time integration is something you are looking to implement and you were looking for a simpler way to get the data out of SQL, keep reading. SQL is making it easier to integrate and Change Event Streaming is a feature continuing this trend. Modern applications and analytics platforms increasingly rely on event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines. As the businesses speed up, real time decisio...
18/11/2025
Expanding Azure Arc for Hybrid and Multicloud Management
Hybrid and multi-cloud environments are no longer optional—they’re essential for modern enterprises. At Ignite 2025, we are announcing key enhancements to Azure Arc based on your feedback, designed to simplify governance, improve security, and deliver operational consistency across diverse infrastructures. Here’s what’s new: 1. Multicloud Connector for GCP – Public Preview Azure Arc now extends its multicloud reach with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
18/11/2025
Public Preview: Multicloud connector support for Google Cloud
We are excited to announce that the Multicloud connector is now in preview for GCP environments.With the Multicloud connector, you can easily connect your GCP projects and AWS accounts to Azure with the following capabilities: The agentless inventory solution will periodically scan your GCP environment, project the discovered resources in GCP as Azure resources, including all of the GCP metadata like GCP labels.
18/11/2025
Accelerate your cloud migration journey with Azure Arc resource discovery in Azure Migrate (preview)
Today, we’re excited to announce a new preview capability that extends this value:Azure Migrate’s Arc-based discovery—designed to accelerate your migration decision-making and planning without additional on-premises deployments.With Arc-based discovery, you can leverage your existing Arc-enabled servers and Arc-enabled SQL Server instances to quickly gain insights into:Migration readiness for Azure targets such as Azure VMs, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
18/11/2025
AI-Powered Performance Testing
Performance testing is critical for delivering reliable, scalable applications. We have been working on AI-driven innovations in Azure Load Testing that will change how you author and analyze load tests. AI-Assisted Authoring of JMeter Scripts Writing high-quality load test scripts has traditionally required deep expertise. From setting correlations and think times to properly parameterizing inputs, it requires significant time and effort. This manual effort s...
18/11/2025
Optimize Your Cloud Environment Using Agentic AI
In today’s cloud-first world, optimization is no longer a luxury—it’s a strategic imperative. As IT professionals and developers navigate increasingly complex environments, the need to reduce costs, improve sustainability, and accelerate decision-making has never been more urgent. At Ignite 2025, Microsoft is introducing a new wave of agentic capabilities within Azure Copilot—one of the key capabilities includes the
18/11/2025
Empowering organizations with integrated data security: What’s new in Microsoft Purview
Today, data moves across clouds, apps, and devices at an unprecedented speed, often outside the visibility of siloed legacy tools. The rise of autonomous agents, generative AI, and distributed data ecosystems means that traditional perimeter-based security models are no longer sufficient. Even though companies are spending more than $213 billiongl...
18/11/2025
What’s New at Ignite: Powerful Enhancements in Unified Threat Intelligence
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re unveiling transformative upgrades in threat intelligence designed to empower security teams. With the Threat Intelligence Briefing Agent now fully integrated into the Defender portal, defenders can shift from reactive to proactive security strategies, using Microsoft’s global intelligence combined with insights tailored to their organization. Additionally, the latest phase of the integration of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) with Defender XDR and...
18/11/2025
What's new in Azure Container Apps at Ignite'25
Azure Container Apps (ACA) is a fully managed serverless container platform that enables developers to design and deploy microservices and modern apps without requiring container expertise or needing infrastructure management. ACA is rapidly emerging as the preferred platform for hosting AI workloads and intelligent agents in the cloud. With features like code interpreter, Serverless GPUs, simplifi...
18/11/2025
Introducing optimized locking v2
Executive summary New improvements in optimized locking further reduce the overhead of locks in the MSSQL database engine. For many transactions, row and page locks aren’t taken at all while still retaining ACID transaction semantics. The improvements require no changes in customer workloads or configuration and are a part of optimized locking in SQL Server 2025, Azu...
18/11/2025
Simplify Application Monitoring for AKS with Azure Monitor (Public Preview)
As cloud-native workloads scale, customers increasingly expect application and infrastructure observability to be unified, automated, and devops-friendly. Azure Monitor is advancing this vision with Application Monitoring for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). With seamless onboarding and troubleshooting experiences in the Azure Portal, now in Public Preview. This new capability brings first-class OpenTelemetry&n...
18/11/2025
Resource governor - a new beginning
Executive summary In addition to increased CPU and memory limits, we are making another change to benefit customers using the SQL Server Standard edition. Starting with SQL Server 2025, resource governor, previously an Enterprise edition feature, is also available in the Standard edition. A powerful tool Resource governor has been a p...
18/11/2025
Unlocking Enterprise AI: SQL Server 2025 and NVIDIA Nemotron RAG Accelerate AI
Today, most of the world’s data still remains untapped, sitting in databases, documents, and systems across organizations. Enterprises are racing to unlock this data’s value by building the next wave of generative AI applications—solutions that can answer questions, summarize documents, and drive smarter decisions. At the heart of these innovations are retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, which enable users to interactively engage with large amount of data that continuously evolves...
18/11/2025
SQL Server 2025 is Now Generally Available
Today at Ignite, we announce the general availability of SQL Server 2025. This marks the latest milestone in the more than 30-year history of SQL Server. It is also a key part of our commitment to the one consistent SQL promise, delivering consistent experience across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, with one engine and one unified platform. Built on SQL Server’s foundation of best-in-class security, performance and availability, SQL Server 2025 is the AI-ready enterprise dat...
18/11/2025
Introducing Project Opal: A New Way to Get Task-Based Work Done
Today we’re introducing Project Opal in Microsoft 365 Copilot – a new AI-powered capability that executes task-based work inside a secure, observable environment you control. Every organization faces the challenge of repetitive, manual work – tasks that consume valuable time and take away from strategic priorities, creativity, and high-impact work. Consider the time it takes to gather information across multiple sites and tools for a compliance audit, onboarding new employees with equi...
18/11/2025
Azure app platform at Ignite 2025: New innovations for all your apps and agents
Software is evolving faster than ever, and organizations now operate across multiple generations of application architectures at once: AI apps and agents, cloud-native microservices, modernized enterprise applications, and mission-critical workloads that have powered their businesses for decades. To innovate at the pace AI demands, organizations need a unified platform that supports where they are today and accelerates where they’re going. The need has never been clearer: 95% of IT decision m...
18/11/2025
Scale with Ease: Simplified Setup and Management for Connectors
At Microsoft, we’re continuously evolving our platform to make it easier for organizations to connect their data, unlock insights, and maximize their Copilot experience. The Copilot connector ecosystem has expanded from 30 to over 75+ connectors, enabling seamless integration with the tools your organization relies on every day — from ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence to shared drives and line-of-business applications. By indexing data from these key business apps, Copilot Connectors he...
18/11/2025
Building AI apps and agents for the new frontier
Every new wave of applications brings with it the promise of reshaping how we work, build and create. From digitization to web, from cloud to mobile, these shifts have made us all more connected, more engaged and more powerful. The incoming wave of agentic applications, estimated to number 1.3 billion over the next 2 years is no different. But the expectations of these new services are unprecedented, in part for how they will uniquely operate with both intelligence and agency, how they will a...
18/11/2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025: Power the next era of cybersecurity with Microsoft Sentinel
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re showcasing how Microsoft Sentinel —trusted by over 40,000 customers worldwide— combines industry-leading SIEM capabilities with a purpose-built security data lake to transform security operations. This powerful combination delivers deep visibility, advanced analytics, and cost-efficiency—empowering security teams to detect, investigate, and respond faster in an AI-driven e...
18/11/2025
Microsoft Sentinel MCP Server - Generally Available With Exciting New Capabilities
Today, we’re excited to announce the General Availability of Microsoft Sentinel MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, a fully managed cloud service built on an open standard that empowers AI agents to seamlessly access your entire security context through natural language, eliminating the need for complex data engineering as you build agents. This unlocks new levels of AI agent performance and effectiveness, enabling them to do more for you. Since the public preview launch on Sept...
18/11/2025
Microsoft Security Store: Now Generally Available
When we launched the Microsoft Security Store in public preview on September 30, our goal was simple: make it easier for organizations to discover, purchase, and deploy trusted security solutions and AI agents that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Security products. Today, Microsoft Security Store is generally available—with three major ...
18/11/2025
Post-Quantum Cryptography APIs Now Generally Available on Microsoft Platforms
Introduction We are excited to announce a significant leap forward in security: Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms are now generally available in Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 clients (24H2,...
18/11/2025
Troubleshoot with OTLP signals in Azure Monitor (Limited Public Preview)
As organizations increasingly rely on distributed cloud-native applications, the need for comprehensive standards-based observability has never been greater. OpenTelemetry (OTel) has emerged as the industry standard for collecting and transmitting telemetry data, enabling unified monitoring across diverse platforms and services. Microsoft is among the
18/11/2025
Security as the core primitive in the agentic era: New innovations to secure AI agents and apps
This week at Microsoft Ignite, we shared our vision for Microsoft security -- In the agentic era, security must be ambient and autonomous, like the AI it protects. It must be woven into and around everything we build—from silicon to OS, to agents, apps, data, platforms, and clouds—and throughout everything we do. In this blog, we are going to dive deeper into many of the new innovations we are introducing this week to secure AI agents and apps. As I spend time with our customers and pa...
18/11/2025
Ignite 2025: Advancing Azure Database for MySQL with Powerful New Capabilities
At Ignite 2025, we’re introducing a wave of powerful new capabilities for Azure Database for MySQL, designed to help organizations modernize, scale, and innovate faster than ever before. From enhanced high availability and seamless serverless integrations to AI-powered insights and greater flexibility for developers, these advancements reflect our commitment to delivering a resilient, intelligent data platform. Join us as we unveil what’s next for MySQL on Azure - and discover how industry le...
18/11/2025
Accelerate frontline adoption of Microsoft Teams on personal devices
Frontline workers are the heartbeat of your organization and they need quick, secure access to Microsoft Teams to stay connected and productive. Yet, for many companies, onboarding Teams on a personal device can feel like a maze of extra steps due to security and compliance requirements. That’s where our new web-based onboarding experience comes in. This solution is designed to simplify and accelerate setup for frontline workers, ensuring they can start collaborating on their first day...
18/11/2025
Migration Agent - Unlocking transformation
IT Modernization is far more than adopting a new technology—it’s a transformative, ongoing journey that reshapes processes and culture. It has no finish line, and when embraced fully, it delivers lasting strategic advantage. Modernization unlocks agility, resilience and innovation to keep up with customer expectations and shifts in the competitive landscape. Cloud-native architectures are best positioned to support modernization while securely providing access to innovations such as A...
18/11/2025
Enhancing visibility into your identity fabric with Microsoft Defender
Layered identity security for the modern enterpriseIdentity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) has to combine modern identity and access management (IAM) and security operations (SOC) through an integrated partnership between identity and security teams.Microsoft Defender’s latest identity security enhancements empower organizations to see and understand their entire identity fabric with unprecedented clarity.
18/11/2025
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Integration with Fabric Real Time Intelligence Eventhouse
Customers need to enable different scenarios to successfully operate their IT/OT environments and business processes for meeting business objectives. Building solutions to solve these problems requires deriving rich insights from telemetry data emitted by devices, assets, applications, typically, by combining with other data to answer business questions. The common need for the systems that produce the insights is the ability to obtain the data they need within acceptable latency, to process,...
18/11/2025
Introducing Microsoft Agent Factory
Introducing Microsoft Agent FactoryMicrosoft Agent Factory is a new program designed for organizations that want to move from experimentation to execution faster.With a single metered plan, organizations can build agents with Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ using Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio.
18/11/2025
Windows CLAT Enters Private Preview: A Milestone for IPv6 Adoption
IPv6 Adoption: A Global Shift Since its standardization in the late 1990s, IPv6 has steadily gained traction. The last 15 years, especially since World IPv6 Launch Day in 2011, have seen significant progress. Global IPv6 adoption now hovers around 43 to 48%, with countries li...
18/11/2025
OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift GA: Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Modernization
Today at Microsoft Ignite 2025, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift reaches General Availability (GA), unlocking a unified platform where enterprise IT teams can run virtual machines and containers side by side. This milestone enables organizations to migrate legacy VMs to Azure, consolidate disparate infrastructure, and modernize applications at t...
18/11/2025
AI Agents Are Rewriting the App Modernization Playbook
The Modernization Moment: Why Now? Modernizing enterprise applications has historically been slow, manual, and costly. For many IT leaders and developers, it’s meant wrestling with aging frameworks, complex dependencies, and the constant tug-of-war between maintaining legacy systems and driving innovation. The stakes are high: every dollar spent on maintenance is a dollar not invested in the future. But the game is changing. Today, agentic AI is transforming mod...
18/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned#7: Database Missing After Planned Maintenance
If you’re running Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, you might encounter a scenario where your database disappears after planned maintenance.The missing database files were located in a temporary tablespace.Unfortunately, data cannot be recovered because temporary tablespaces are excluded from backups during maintenance activities or server restarts.
18/11/2025
Copilot Studio and Azure AI Services, A Case Study on the Mix of the Two Worlds
Recently, I faced just such a challenge: a project requiring the processing of thousands of documents, each needing accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR), structured data extraction, and seamless integration into business workflows.Microsoft’s Azure AI Services offer robust, scalable tools for document intelligence and data extraction, while Copilot Studio provides a low-code canvas to orchestrate workflows and empower business users.This case study explores how blending Azure AI’s advanced document processing with Copilot Studio’s low-code capabilities can deliver powerful, end-to-end solutions.
18/11/2025
Microsoft AI Tour Frankfurt: MVPs Leading the Way in AI Innovation
The Microsoft AI Tour in Frankfurt wasn’t just a showcase of cutting-edge technology—it was a celebration of community, collaboration, and learning. At the heart of this experience were our MVPs, who brought their expertise, energy, and passion to the event. From helping attendees navigate sessions to sharing real-world insights, MVPs played a vital role in making the AI Tour unforgettable.
18/11/2025
Forecasting the Future with Tree-Based Models for Time Series
Decision tree-based models in machine learning are frequently used for a wide range of predictive tasks such as classification and regression, typically on structured, tabular data.
18/11/2025
Solving the Data Challenge for Manufacturers with Sight Machine & Azure IoT Operations
Delivering Industrial AI: From Data to Results As manufacturers accelerate their digital transformation, the ability to unify and leverage operational data is the difference between incremental improvement and competitive advantage. Today, we’re launching a joint solution with Sight Machine, purpose-built to solve the OT data challenge and deliver the full Industrial AI stack in weeks, not months:
18/11/2025
Moving the Logic Apps Designer Forward
Today, we're excited to announce a major redesign of the Azure Logic Apps designer experience, now entering Public Preview for Standard workflows.While these improvements are currently Standard-only, our vision is to quickly extend them across all Logic Apps surfaces and SKUs.We're actively stabilizing the experience based on your feedback.
18/11/2025
Understanding Small Language Modes
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the key differences between Large Language Models (LLMs) and Small Language Models (SLMs) and why the latter are becoming essential for edge computing.In short, while LLMs like GPT-5 and Gemini are incredibly powerful, they depend on massive compute resources and constant connectivity.SLMs, with far fewer parameters, can run directly on devices such as smartphones, laptops, and embedded systems.
18/11/2025
Assess Security risks with Insights in Azure Migrate
That’s why we introduced Insights (preview) in Azure Migrate, to help you identify security risks before they become roadblocks during the migration journey. Security Insights in Azure Migrate provides an integrated dashboard that surfaces potential risks in your on-premises environment during migration planning.Security insights are limited to software and operating system data discovered through the Azure Migrate appliance quick discovery.
18/11/2025
From Policy to Practice: Built-In CIS Benchmarks on Azure - Flexible, Hybrid-Ready
Security is more important than ever. The industry-standard for secure machine configuration is the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks. These benchmarks provide consensus-based prescriptive guidance to help organizations harden diverse systems, reduce risk, and streamline compliance with major regulatory frameworks and industry standards like NIST, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. In our
18/11/2025
Uni-MoE-2.0-Omni: An Open Qwen2.5-7B Based Omnimodal MoE for Text, Image, Audio and Video Understanding
How do you build one open model that can reliably understand text, images, audio and video while still running efficiently?A team of researchers from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen introduced Uni-MoE-2.0-Omni, a fully open omnimodal large model that pushes Lychee’s Uni-MoE line toward language centric multimodal reasoning.The system is trained from scratch on […]
18/11/2025
Innovations and Strengthening Platforms Reliability Through Open Source
The Linux Systems Group (LSG) at Microsoft is the team building OS innovations in Azure enabling secure and high-performance platforms that power millions of workloads worldwide. From providing the OS for Boost, optimizing Linux kernels for hyperscale environments or contributing to open-source projects like Rust-VMM and Cloud Hypervisor, LSG ensures customers get...
18/11/2025
How-to add an MCP tool to your Azure Foundry agent using dynamic sessions on Azure Container Apps
The following is a tutorial on how to use an MCP enabled dynamic session as a tool used in an Azure Foundry agent giving it the capability to run remote shell commands. After your agent is created, you can connect a remote MCP server as a tool for your agent to use.In this tutorial, we demonstrated how to extend Azure AI Foundry agents using Azure Container Apps dynamic session pools.
18/11/2025
Windows Server 2019 Retirement on AKS enabled by Azure Arc
Action Required: Migrate to Windows Server 2022 by April 2026 As previously announced, Microsoft is retiring Windows Server 2019 support on Azure Kuberne...
18/11/2025
Partner Blog | Securing the future: How Microsoft partners are powering AI-ready organizations
According to the Microsoft 2025 Work Trend Index Annual Report, 82% of leaders say they’re confident they’ll use AI agents as digital team members to expand workforce capacity in the next 12 to 18 months.In recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, this blog post explores how you can build a stronger security practice and empower your customers to innovate safely, backed by Microsoft partner resources, incentives, and solutions.The average cost of a data breach now exceeds $4.4 million globally, and beyond the financial cost, weak security erodes trust.
18/11/2025
Reimagining Data Excellence: SQL Server 2025 Accelerated by Pure Storage
The arrival of SQL Server 2025 marked a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise data management and modern AI application development from ground to cloud.Designed to transform data into actionable intelligence, it aligns perfectly with the Pure Storage mission to simplify, accelerate, and modernize data infrastructure.It has evolved from a traditional database engine into an intelligent data platform designed for AI-driven operations for mission critical Enterprise workloads.
18/11/2025
Focal Loss vs Binary Cross-Entropy: A Practical Guide for Imbalanced Classification
Binary cross-entropy (BCE) is the default loss function for binary classification—but it breaks down badly on imbalanced datasets.The reason is subtle but important: BCE weighs mistakes from both classes equally, even when one class is extremely rare. Imagine two predictions: a minority-class sample with true label 1 predicted at 0.3, and a majority-class sample […]The post Focal Loss vs Binary Cross-Entropy: A Practical Guide for Imbalanced Classification appeared first on MarkTechPost.
18/11/2025
Redefine work in an AI-enhanced world: Attend the Frontier Firms webinar November 24, 2025
Our dynamic four-part webinar series, Agentic AI + Copilot Partner Skilling Accelerator, empowers you to use the Microsoft AI ecosystem to unlock new revenue streams and enhance customer success. Across four sessions, experts will deliver practical guidance, industry best practices, and proven strategies for applying AI tools in no-code, low-code, and pro-code scenarios. This live virtual event is scheduled for November 24, 2025.
18/11/2025
ZoomIt v9.21
ZoomIt v9.21 This update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, fixes several minor bugs.
17/11/2025
Comprehensive VM Monitoring with OpenTelemetry performance counters
Monitoring virtual machines often requires multiple tools and manual investigation. You may see high CPU or memory usage, but identifying the process responsible usually means signing in to the VM and running diagnostic commands. Azure Monitor already provides Guest OS performance monitoring through Log Analytics‑based metrics, trusted for its flexibility, deep integration, and advanced analytics, including custom performance counters, extended retention, and powerful KQL queries. Many...
17/11/2025
Build smarter, connected agentic apps with Foundry Tools
Tools have the most impact when they’re easy to find and use, which is why we’re introducing Foundry Tools in Microsoft Foundry, a new unified catalog of cutting-edge tools, connectors, and MCP servers.Today we are making a series of announcements to empower developers to build AI agents that understand business context and may act on business systems:Today, we are excited to announce that we are making it easier to leverage our premier AI capabilities—including Azure Speech, Azure Document Intelligence, Azure Content Understanding, Azure Translator, and Azure Language—all in Foundry Tools.
17/11/2025
Securing Azure SQL Database with Microsoft Entra Password-less Authentication: Migration Guide
As part of this initiative, Microsoft Entra authentication for Azure SQL Database offers a modern, password less approach to access control that aligns with Zero Trust principles.To add Entra users from an external tenant, invite them as guest users to the Azure SQL Database's Entra administrator tenant.Migrating to Microsoft Entra password-less authentication for Azure SQL Database is a strategic investment in security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
17/11/2025
Upcoming November 2025 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call
Join our next community call on November 25, 2025, or a recap of what was announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025.Once you register, you will receive an email confirmation and calendar invite with the webinar join link.While our calls are open to everyone, you must be a member of the Microsoft 365 Champion Program in order to access the presentation materials - the access link is in the initial welcome email and the monthly newsletter emails sent the week before the community calls.
17/11/2025
Handle Scale for Power State Operations using Scheduled Actions for Azure Virtual Machines.
Scheduled Actions handles retries on transient errors.Scheduled Actions sits above the APIs for VM power state operations and sends actions on your behalf.Scheduled Actions ensures maximum operational throughput for your subscription on large-scale concurrent requests.
17/11/2025
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2 Uses Functional Generative Networks For 8x Faster Probabilistic Weather Forecasts
Google DeepMind Research have introduced WeatherNext 2, an AI based medium range global weather forecasting system that now powers upgraded forecasts in Google Search, Gemini, Pixel Weather and Google Maps Platform’s Weather API, with Google Maps integration coming next.It combines a new Functional Generative Network, or FGN, architecture with a large ensemble to deliver […]The post Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2 Uses Functional Generative Networks For 8x Faster Probabilistic Weather Forecasts appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/11/2025
Linux on Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2025: What’s New, What to Attend, and Where to Find Us
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is almost here, and we’re heading back to San Francisco from November 17-21 with a full digital experience for those joining online.This year, Linux takes center stage in a big way.From new security innovations in Azure Linux to deeper AKS modernization capabilities and hands-on learning opportunities, Ignite 2025 is packed with content for anyone building, running, or securing Linux-based workloads in Azure.
17/11/2025
Rephrase text to suit your presentation narrative with Copilot
I’m excited to share that you can now quickly enhance content directly within your presentation with the help of Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint for Windows and PowerPoint for the web.Rephrase text to suit your presentation narrative with CopilotRewriting text in your PowerPoint slides is now quicker and more intuitive thanks to the new Auto-rewrite, Condense, Make professional, and Make it a list options.
17/11/2025
Azure CycleCloud 8.8 and CCWS 1.2 at SC25 and Ignite
Azure CycleCloud 8.8: Advancing HPC & AI Workloads with Smarter Health ChecksWith the release of CycleCloud 8.8, users gain access to a suite of new features designed to streamline cluster management, enhance health monitoring, and future-proof their HPC environments.5. Enterprise Linux 9 and Ubuntu 20.24 support
17/11/2025
Your next big move: Thriving in the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace
The Microsoft commercial marketplace has entered a new era – and if you’re an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) or Software Development Company (SDC), this is your ticket to scale.As of 25 September 2025, Microsoft unified Azure Marketplace and AppSource into a single, streamlined Microsoft Marketplace.ISV Success - Discover offers and benefits of ISV Success to help you take your apps and agents to the next level.Marketplace Rewards - Learn how Marketplace Rewards helps software development companies close deals and reach more customers
17/11/2025
How to Integrate Playwright MCP for AI-Driven Test Automation
With the introduction of Model Context Protocol (MCP), Playwright can now interact with AI models and external tools to make smarter testing decisions.This guide walks you through integrating MCP with Playwright in VSCode, starting from the basics, enabling you to build smarter, adaptive tests today.Step 3: Install MCP Server for VS Code
17/11/2025
Announcing the General Availability of the RabbitMQ Connector
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the RabbitMQ Connector in Logic Apps (Standard) which allows you to both send and receive messages between Logic Apps and RabbitMQ.To send a message, search for the RabbitMQ connector in your design experience.To Complete messages, in scenarios using peek-lock, search for the RabbitMQ connector within the Logic Apps designer.
17/11/2025
Collaborative Research by Microsoft and NVIDIA on Real-Time Immunity
To stay protected, enterprises need to adopt AI-powered cybersecurity systems that learn, anticipate, and respond as intelligent defenders.This is where Adversarial Learning, a critical new frontier in security, comes in.This post highlights how Microsoft and NVIDIA are transforming adversarial learning research into real-time, adaptive solutions to improve cyber defenses—leveraging GPU-accelerated computing to deliver scalable, adaptive protection.
17/11/2025
Get your FY26 FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect nominations in today!
The FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect (FTRSA) program highlights architects who go beyond basic implementation, driving customer success, fostering innovation, and advancing Microsoft’s ecosystem through outstanding technical expertise.Become a part of the community celebrating customer success in Power Platform & Dynamics 365 implementations.Apply here October 27-March 3:
17/11/2025
Native root detection support for Microsoft Defender on Android
That’s why we’re pleased to share that Microsoft Defender now includes built-in root detection on Android devices.With this update, Defender now detects rooted Android devices, whether they are managed or unmanaged.Join us in San Francisco, November 17–21, or online, November 18–20, for deep dives and practical labs to help you maximize your Microsoft Defender investments ad to get more from the Microsoft capabilities you already use.
17/11/2025
Assess and upgrade to SQL Server 2025 with SSMS Migration Component
Starting with SSMS 22, the Hybrid & Migration component now includes upgrade assessment for SQL Server 2025.SSMS also provides a streamlined migration path to the instance of higher version if in-place upgrade is not preferred.If you previously used Microsoft Data Migration Assistant (DMA) for upgrade assessments, SSMS migration component is now the recommended alternative.
17/11/2025
From listing to sale: Microsoft Marketplace made easy
This guide walks through how top software companies go transactable, combining AI, automation, and integrations to make it simple and scalable.Microsoft is doubling down on transactable listings as the foundation of its marketplace strategy.Suger combines automation, AI, and native integrations in one platform built for hyperscaler marketplaces.
17/11/2025
Defending the cloud: Azure neutralized a record-breaking 15 Tbps DDoS attack
On October 24, 2025, Azure DDOS Protection automatically detected and mitigated a multi-vector DDoS attack measuring 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps).This was the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud and it targeted a single endpoint in Australia.The attack originated from Aisuru botnet.
17/11/2025
Transforming Security Analysis into a Repeatable, Auditable, and Agentic Workflow
Security analysis shouldn’t be an afterthought—it should be a continuous, auditable, and intelligence-driven process built directly into the engineering workflow. This work introduces an agentic security analysis pipeline that uses reasoning models and tool-based agents to detect variant vulnerabilities across large, fast-changing codebases.By combining automation with explainability, it transforms security validation from a manual, point-in-time task into a repeatable and trustworthy part of every build.The agentic patterns and tooling can support net-new vulnerability discovery through cross-binary pattern matching, regression detection using historical code comparisons, reproducibility checks aligned with SDL requirements, and model-assisted fuzzing orchestrated through CI/CD processes.
17/11/2025
Ignite your future with new security skills during Microsoft Ignite 2025
Ignite your future with new security skills during Microsoft Ignite 2025Take on the Secure and Govern AI with Confidence ChallengeOne of the challenges featured is the Secure and Govern AI with Confidence challenge.
17/11/2025
Progress Software and Process.Science offer transactable partner solutions in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Progress Software and Process.Science deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace.Learn about these offers below:Process.Science Process Mining: Process.Science integrates process mining capabilities into Microsoft Power BI, allowing organizations to visualize and analyze event data directly within their existing Power BI environment.
17/11/2025
Announcing Public Preview: Exchange Online Admin API
Today, we are announcing the Public Preview of the Exchange Online Admin API – a REST based, cmdlet style administrative surface specifically designed to help organizations migrate away from EWS for specific Exchange admin scenarios and modernize automation workflows over HTTP.Exchange Web Services (EWS) is scheduled for deprecation in October 2026, yet many organizations still depend on EWS for specific Exchange administrative tasks due to unavailability of the alternate API for these scenarios.The Admin API provides a REST based, cmdlet style alternative for these scenarios, enabling modern automation while preserving familiar semantics for Exchange administrators.
17/11/2025
New Compliance Solutions in Microsoft Sentinel: HIPAA & GDPR Reports
Helps organizations demonstrate compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and protect personal data in cloud and hybrid environments.This solution provides a unified workbook that consolidates data from Alerts and Incidents, Microsoft Purview, Azure SQL Databases, Microsoft 365, User & Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), and Entra ID.To unlock the full potential of the HIPAA Compliance Solution, you need to integrate key data sources into Microsoft Sentinel.
17/11/2025
Secure Azure Stream Analytics Jobs in Dedicated Clusters Using Managed PE for Blob Input/Output
Azure Stream Analytics supports Dedicated Clusters and Managed Private Endpoints, enabling jobs to run in isolated environments and connect privately to Azure resources without exposing them to the public internet.The Stream Analytics Cluster resource provides dedicated compute for running multiple jobs securely and at scale.# Create a Managed Private Endpoint for Stream Analytics Job to access Storage Account
17/11/2025
Meta AI Introduces DreamGym: A Textual Experience Synthesizer For Reinforcement learning RL Agents
Reinforcement learning RL for large language model LLM agents looks attractive on paper, but in practice it breaks on cost, infrastructure and reward noise.Training an agent that clicks through web pages or completes multi step tool use can easily need tens of thousands of real interactions, each slow, brittle and hard to reset.The post Meta AI Introduces DreamGym: A Textual Experience Synthesizer For Reinforcement learning RL Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/11/2025
Duplicate detection in Logic App Trigger
Duplicate Detection in Logic App TriggerIn certain scenarios, a Logic App may process the same item multiple times due to various reasons.To address this issue, I implemented a solution using the Logic Apps REST API:Workflow Runs - List - REST API (Azure Logic Apps) |
17/11/2025
A Coding Guide to Implement Advanced Hyperparameter Optimization with Optuna using Pruning Multi-Objective Search, Early Stopping, and Deep Visual Analysis
In this tutorial, we implement an advanced Optuna workflow that systematically explores pruning, multi-objective optimization, custom callbacks, and rich visualization.Through each snippet, we see how Optuna helps us shape smarter search spaces, speed up experiments, and extract insights that guide model improvement.The post A Coding Guide to Implement Advanced Hyperparameter Optimization with Optuna using Pruning Multi-Objective Search, Early Stopping, and Deep Visual Analysis appeared first on MarkTechPost.
17/11/2025
From Code to Cloud: Python-Driven Microsoft Fabric Deployments
Create an Azure Service Principal and configure variable groups in Azure DevOps for both DEV and PROD environments:This automated deployment solution for Microsoft Fabric ensures reliable, repeatable, and secure artifact management across multiple environments.By leveraging Azure DevOps, Python scripting, and robust configuration files, teams can achieve seamless CI/CD for complex Fabric projects.
17/11/2025
MDE for Non‑Persistent VDI — Implementation Guide & Best Practices.
1. Overview: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) for Non‑Persistent VDIDownload the Windows onboarding package (Deployment method: VDI onboarding scripts for non‑persistent endpoints).Configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus on RDS/VDI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/deployment-vdi-microsoft-defender-antivirus
17/11/2025
Google DeepMind Introduces SIMA 2, A Gemini Powered Generalist Agent For Complex 3D Virtual Worlds
Google DeepMind has released SIMA 2 to test how far generalist embodied agents can go inside complex 3D game worlds.SIMA’s (Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent) new version upgrades the original instruction follower into a Gemini driven system that reasons about goals, explains its plans, and improves from self play in many different environments.The post Google DeepMind Introduces SIMA 2, A Gemini Powered Generalist Agent For Complex 3D Virtual Worlds appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/11/2025
AI Interview Series #2: Explain Some of the Common Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security Vulnerabilities
In this part of the Interview Series, we’ll look at some of the common security vulnerabilities in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a framework designed to let LLMs safely interact with external tools and data sources.While MCP brings structure and transparency to how models access context, it also introduces new security risks if […]The post AI Interview Series #2: Explain Some of the Common Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security Vulnerabilities appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/11/2025
Comparing the Top 4 Agentic AI Browsers in 2025: Atlas vs Copilot Mode vs Dia vs Comet
Agentic AI browsers are moving the model from ‘answering about the web’ to operating on the web.In 2025, four AI browsers define this space: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas, Microsoft Edge with Copilot Mode, The Browser Company’s Dia, and Perplexity’s Comet.Each makes different design choices around autonomy, memory, and privacy.
16/11/2025
How to Build Memory-Powered Agentic AI That Learns Continuously Through Episodic Experiences and Semantic Patterns for Long-Term Autonomy
In this tutorial, we explore how to build agentic systems that think beyond a single interaction by utilizing memory as a core capability.We walk through how we design episodic memory to store experiences and semantic memory to capture long-term patterns, allowing the agent to evolve its behaviour over multiple sessions.The post How to Build Memory-Powered Agentic AI That Learns Continuously Through Episodic Experiences and Semantic Patterns for Long-Term Autonomy appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/11/2025
Cerebras Releases MiniMax-M2-REAP-162B-A10B: A Memory Efficient Version of MiniMax-M2 for Long Context Coding Agents
Cerebras has released MiniMax-M2-REAP-162B-A10B, a compressed Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) Causal Language Model derived from MiniMax-M2, using the new Router weighted Expert Activation Pruning (REAP) method.The model keeps the behavior of the original 230B total, 10B active MiniMax M2, while pruning experts and reducing memory for deployment focused workloads such as coding agents and tool […]The post Cerebras Releases MiniMax-M2-REAP-162B-A10B: A Memory Efficient Version of MiniMax-M2 for Long Context Coding Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
16/11/2025
Public Preview of Azure Native Dell PowerScale
Dell and Microsoft are extending their partnership by bringing Dell's flagship unstructured data product, OneFS, to Azure as a new fully managed offering – now in Public Preview.Microsoft customers can now choose between two flavors of Dell PowerScale.Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure is a fully managed service, implemented as an Azure Native ISV service (LINK).
15/11/2025
MBZUAI Researchers Introduce PAN: A General World Model For Interactable Long Horizon Simulation
Most text to video models generate a single clip from a prompt and then stop.They do not keep an internal world state that persists as actions arrive over time.PAN, a new model from MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models, is designed to fill that gap by acting as a general world model that predicts […]
15/11/2025
How to Design a Fully Interactive, Reactive, and Dynamic Terminal-Based Data Dashboard Using Textual?
In this tutorial, we build an advanced interactive dashboard using Textual, and we explore how terminal-first UI frameworks can feel as expressive and dynamic as modern web dashboards.As we write and run each snippet, we actively construct the interface piece by piece, widgets, layouts, reactive state, and event flows, so we can see how […]The post How to Design a Fully Interactive, Reactive, and Dynamic Terminal-Based Data Dashboard Using Textual? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/11/2025
Comparing the Top 5 AI Agent Architectures in 2025: Hierarchical, Swarm, Meta Learning, Modular, Evolutionary
In 2025, ‘building an AI agent’ mostly means choosing an agent architecture: how perception, memory, learning, planning, and action are organized and coordinated.This comparison article looks at 5 concrete architectures: Comparison of the 5 architectures Architecture Control topology Learning focus Typical use cases Hierarchical Cognitive Agent Centralized, layered Layer specific control and planning Robotics, […]The post Comparing the Top 5 AI Agent Architectures in 2025: Hierarchical, Swarm, Meta Learning, Modular, Evolutionary appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/11/2025
Azure Databricks Cost Optimization: A Practical Guide
This guide walks through a proven approach to Databricks cost optimization, structured in three phases: Discovery, Best Practices Alignment, and Team Alignment & Next Steps. Databricks Unity Catalog provides system tables that store operational data for your account.Prebuilt Queries: Use top queries with system tables to answer meaningful cost questions.
15/11/2025
ESPC25 – Dublin | Microsoft event guide
European SharePoint Conference 2025 |Dublin, Ireland, is one of the most dynamic and innovative tech cities in Europe, making it the perfect place for in-person, in-depth learning at the European SharePoint Conference—now simply branded as ESPC25—December 1–4, 2025.The European SharePoint Conference (ESPC), now known simply as ESPC, is one of the largest and most prominent events in Europe dedicated to Microsoft technologies, particularly Microsoft 365 and Azure.
15/11/2025
OpenAI Researchers Train Weight Sparse Transformers to Expose Interpretable Circuits
If neural networks are now making decisions everywhere from code editors to safety systems, how can we actually see the specific circuits inside that drive each behavior?OpenAI has introduced a new mechanistic interpretability research study that trains language models to use sparse internal wiring, so that model behavior can be explained using small, explicit […]The post OpenAI Researchers Train Weight Sparse Transformers to Expose Interpretable Circuits appeared first on MarkTechPost.
15/11/2025
SharePoint Embedded guide for software companies: Use cases make it real for customers
A: The most successful multi-tenant software companies use the owning and consuming tenant approach. Once you have developed your application and it’s ready to be deployed to a customer, customers want to maintain control of their data, use the security configuration they have configured and compliance controls across their entire data estate. What they don’t want to do is store data outside of their tenant. When using SharePoint Embedded, you control the application, your customer controls their data.When you’re ready to bring on a new customer, you simply register SharePoint Embedded on the consuming tenant (your customer). As documents are added through your application, they reside in the consuming tenant and all the security boundaries they have configured.A: SharePoint Embedded inherits Office 365's data residency capabilities, which often exceeds what most software companies can provide on their own:
14/11/2025
Ignite 2025: New Microsoft Sentinel Connectors Announcement
Recognized as a leader by Gartner and Forrester, Microsoft Sentinel is a platform for all of security, evolving to unify signals, cut costs, and power agentic AI for the modern SOC.With over 350+ integrations available, organizations can seamlessly bring data from a wide range of sources into Microsoft Sentinel’s analytics and data lake tiers.Today we showcase some of the most recent additions to our growing Microsoft Sentinel ecosystem spanning categories such as cloud security, endpoint protection, identity, IT operations, threat intelligence, compliance, and more:
14/11/2025
Fine-Tuning Healthcare AI Models: Grounded Findings Generation with CXRReportGen
CXRReportGen is both a language model and a detection model, so we can improve the clinical accuracy of detection and language generation to adapt to local contexts: imaging/population characteristics, clinical patterns, and institutional reporting styles.That’s why we’re excited to announce the fine-tuning capability for CXRReportGen, which enables you to harness your existing data to create a model that not only delivers greater clinical accuracy but also produces findings and reports that match your organization’s preferred style and formatting.CXRReportGen is Microsoft’s grounded report generation model for chest X-rays.
14/11/2025
Unlocking Developer Innovation with Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Microsoft Sentinel is evolving rapidly, transforming to be both an industry-leading SIEM and an AI-ready platform that empowers agentic defense across the security ecosystem.In our recent webinar: Introduction to Sentinel data lake for Developers, we explored how developers can leverage Sentinel’s unified data lake, extensible architecture, and integrated tools to build innovative security solutions.This post summarizes the key takeaways and actionable insights for developers looking to harness the full power of Sentinel.
14/11/2025
Microsoft and Rockwell Automation: Transforming Industrial AI Together
Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Optix and Microsoft’s Azure IoT Operations together deliver a powerful foundation for industrial transformation.FactoryTalk Optix provides a modern, flexible visualization platform for real-time monitoring and control of OT systems.Paired with Azure IoT Operations, a unified, adaptive cloud solution built on open standards and powered by Azure Arc, manufacturers gain seamless connectivity across the factory floor enabling edge to cloud orchestration.
14/11/2025
Title Plan Update – November 14, 2025
November 14, 2025 Title Plan Now AvailableAccess the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version.📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan.
14/11/2025
Join Microsoft @ SC25: Experience HPC and AI Innovation
Supercomputing 2025 is coming to St. Louis, MO, November 16–21!Visit Microsoft Booth #1627 to explore cutting-edge HPC and AI solutions, connect with experts, and experience interactive demos that showcase the future of compute.Alpine Formula 1 Showcar: Snap a photo with a real Alpine F1 car and learn how high-performance computing drives innovation in motorsports.
14/11/2025
Debunking the myth: Cloud-native Windows devices and access to on-premises resources
Microsoft’s vision for secure, productive workplaces is clear: adopt cloud-first services, integrate Zero Trust throughout, and deploy Windows 11 devices as cloud-native endpoints to stay agile and future-ready.On your Zero Trust journey, if you need to provide access to on-premises applications and services, consider replacing your traditional VPN with a modern solution, enabled by Microsoft Entra Private Access.The Zero Trust Workshop is a guided framework to help you translate your Zero Trust strategy into actionable implementation steps which track your deployment progress and align with Microsoft recommendations.
14/11/2025
Improved search dropdown placement in OneNote on Windows
I’m happy to share improvements to the search experience in Microsoft OneNote on Windows, especially for those of you using the Horizontal Tabs layout where the page list is on the right.Improved search dropdown placement in OneNote on WindowsWith this update, we’ve repositioned the search dropdown to minimize overlap with your page.
14/11/2025
Accelerating HPC and EDA with Powerful Azure NetApp Files Enhancements
Azure NetApp Files continues to evolve, delivering ever improving enterprise-grade storage innovations that empower workloads such as High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) teams to scale, collaborate, and innovate faster.This brand-new Validating Scalable EDA Storage Performance: Azure NetApp Files and SPECstorage Solution 2020 article provides an in-depth look at the capabilities of Azure NetApp Files and its advantages for EDA teams, highlighting its extreme performance and linear scalability for EDA workloads.The Azure NetApp Files migration assistant (now with Azure portal experience) is a purpose-built tool that streamlines the migration of data from on-premises NetApp® ONTAP® systems or Cloud Volumes ONTAP® into Azure NetApp Files.
14/11/2025
Welcome Back Federal! Try this Prompt of the Week to get Caught Up.
This blog post introduces a powerful Copilot prompt designed to help you catch up fast and prioritize effectively, so you can focus on what matters most without wasting hours sifting through updates.The Solution: Microsoft 365 Copilot PromptComprehensive Scan: Reviews all recent emails, Teams chats, and meetings since your return date.
14/11/2025
How to Design an Advanced Multi-Agent Reasoning System with spaCy Featuring Planning, Reflection, Memory, and Knowledge Graphs
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic AI system using spaCy, designed to allow multiple intelligent agents to reason, collaborate, reflect, and learn from experience.We work through the entire pipeline step by step, observing how each agent processes tasks using planning, memory, communication, and semantic reasoning.The post How to Design an Advanced Multi-Agent Reasoning System with spaCy Featuring Planning, Reflection, Memory, and Knowledge Graphs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/11/2025
Azure Virtual Network Manager + Azure Virtual WAN
Azure continues to expand its networking capabilities, with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) and Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN) standing out as two of the most transformative services.Virtual WAN replaces a do-it-yourself hub VNet with a fully managed hub service: Where Azure Virtual Network Manager Steps In?
14/11/2025
Delivering web applications over IPv6
Comparison with DNS-Based Solutions:Unlike Traffic Manager or other DNS-based global load balancing solutions, Global Load Balancer provides:- Instant Failover: No DNS TTL delays - failover happens within seconds at the network level.- True Anycast: Single IP address that works globally without client-side DNS resolution.- Consistent Performance: Geo-proximity routing through Microsoft's backbone network ensures optimal paths.- Simplified Management: No DNS record management or TTL considerations.Azure Application Gateway can be deployed in a single region to provide IPv6 access to applications in that region.Azure Front Door Premium introduces Private Link integration, enabling secure, private connectivity between Front Door and backend resources, without exposing them to the public internet.
14/11/2025
Comparing the Top 6 Agent-Native Rails for the Agentic Internet: MCP, A2A, AP2, ACP, x402, and Kite
As AI agents move from single-app copilots to autonomous systems that browse, transact, and coordinate with each other, a new infrastructure layer is emerging underneath them.This article compares six key “agent-native rails” — MCP, A2A, AP2, ACP, x402, and Kite — focusing on how they standardize tool access, inter-agent communication, payment authorization, and settlement, […]The post Comparing the Top 6 Agent-Native Rails for the Agentic Internet: MCP, A2A, AP2, ACP, x402, and Kite appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/11/2025
Meet SDialog: An Open-Source Python Toolkit for Building, Simulating, and Evaluating LLM-based Conversational Agents End-to-End
Meet SDialog, an open sourced Python toolkit for synthetic dialogue generation, evaluation, and interpretability that targets the full conversational pipeline from agent definition to analysis.It standardizes how a Dialog is represented and […]The post Meet SDialog: An Open-Source Python Toolkit for Building, Simulating, and Evaluating LLM-based Conversational Agents End-to-End appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/11/2025
🚀 Mission Agent Possible: Your Chance to Build, Solve, and Win at Microsoft Ignite 2025!
🔍 What’s Mission Agent Possible?Create an AI AgentThe contest officially kicks off on November 18 and closes on November 20 (PST):👉 https://aka.ms/ignite25/mission-agent👉 https://aka.ms/models-blog
14/11/2025
NVIDIA AI Introduces TiDAR: A Hybrid Diffusion Autoregressive Architecture For High Throughput LLM Inference
NVIDIA researchers propose TiDAR, a sequence level hybrid language model that drafts tokens with diffusion and samples them autoregressively in a single forward pass.The main goal of this research is to reach autoregressive […]The post NVIDIA AI Introduces TiDAR: A Hybrid Diffusion Autoregressive Architecture For High Throughput LLM Inference appeared first on MarkTechPost.
14/11/2025
Power Platform Community Conference: MVPs, Community, Insights & Inspiration
At the Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC), Microsoft senior leaders, product engineers, and Microsoft MVPs from around the world came together to teach, demo, and answer hundreds of real‑world questions - showcasing how vibrant and hands‑on this community truly is.This year’s conversations ranged from governance on a budget to app performance tuning and the accelerating role of AI‑powered copilots.Looking ahead, AI and Copilot are reshaping how we build on the Power Platform - here’s how Dian sees it, “AI and Copilot is already reshaping how we build on the Power Platform today.
14/11/2025
GPT‑5.1 in Foundry: A Workhorse for Reasoning, Coding, and Chat
Azure AI Foundry is unveiling OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 series, the next generation of reasoning, analytics, and conversational intelligence.The following models will be rolling out in Foundry today:GPT-5.1-codex: optimized for long-running conversations with enhanced tools and agentic workflows
14/11/2025
New OneNote Class Notebook LTI 1.3 integration in the Microsoft 365 LTI app
OneNote Class Notebook is entering a new era with a modern, unified LTI® 1.3 integration (as part of the Microsoft 365 LTI app) that brings back automatic roster sync and streamlines how educators and students use Class Notebooks within their LMS.This update is designed to benefit both educators and IT admins, making it easier to set up Class Notebooks and keep them in sync with course enrollments.In this article, we’ll cover the key new features, use cases, and next steps -- and how the new integration replaces the older LTI 1.1 tool (which is retiring in 2026).
14/11/2025
How to Build a Fully Self-Verifying Data Operations AI Agent Using Local Hugging Face Models for Automated Planning, Execution, and Testing
In this tutorial, we build a self-verifying DataOps AIAgent that can plan, execute, and test data operations automatically using local Hugging Face models.We design the agent with three intelligent roles: a Planner that creates an execution strategy, an Executor that writes and runs code using pandas, and a Tester that validates the results for […]The post How to Build a Fully Self-Verifying Data Operations AI Agent Using Local Hugging Face Models for Automated Planning, Execution, and Testing appeared first on MarkTechPost.
13/11/2025
How Powerful are Diffusion LLMs? Rethinking Generation with Any-Process Masked Diffusion Models
How powerful are Diffusion LLMs compared to classic autoregressive LLMs, once you treat generation as an algorithm with time and space complexity, not just as a decoding trick?A new research paper from a team researchers from Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and MIT gives a formal answer.This new research compares Auto-Regressive Models (ARM), […]
13/11/2025
From AI to ecosystem strategy: Why UP LIVE Reston was a game-changer
With keynotes from top Microsoft leaders, immersive workshops, and a curated executive audience, this wasn’t just another conference — it was a strategic accelerator for the future of partnering.From Copilot to Agentic AI, Microsoft and its partners are leading the charge in redefining how innovation is delivered.Only 5% of buyers are ready to buy now, and 90% will choose from their “Day 1 list.”
13/11/2025
Cumulative Update #22 for SQL Server 2022 RTM
The 22nd cumulative update release for SQL Server 2022 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site.Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates.To learn more about the release or servicing model, please visit:Starting with SQL Server 2017, we adopted a new modern servicing model.
13/11/2025
ProcDump v11.1
ProcDump v11.1 This update to ProcDump, a command-line utility for generating memory dumps from running processes, fixes several minor bugs.
13/11/2025
Bulletproof agents with the durable task extension for Microsoft Agent Framework
Today, we're thrilled to announce the public preview of the durable task extension for Microsoft Agent Framework.This extension transforms how you build production-ready, resilient and scalable AI agents by bringing the proven durable execution (survives crashes and restarts) and distributed execution (runs across multiple instances) capabilities of Azure Durable Functions directly into the Microsoft Agent Framework.Example scenario: A content publishing agent that generates drafts, sends them to human reviewers, and waits days for approval without running (or paying for) compute resources during the review period.
13/11/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep 27 | Fueling Growth: How IAMCP & MSDynamicsWorld.com Collaboration Empowers Members
In this environment, two organizations are standing out as true game-changers: MSDynamicsWorld (MSDW) and the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP).Two organizations are leading this charge: MSDynamicsWorld (MSDW) and the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP).At the heart of the Microsoft partner landscape are three engines of opportunity: Dynamics 365, Business Central, and the Power Platform.
13/11/2025
Course Retirement Announcement: MS-4008 and MS-4012
MS-4008: Microsoft 365 Copilot Interactive Experience for ExecutivesRetirement date: December 31, 2025Replacement course: N/A
13/11/2025
Microsoft SAP Partner Community Kick-Off – Recap
Welcome to the Microsoft SAP Partner Community!This collaborative hub is designed to help SAP partners leverage Microsoft technologies, accelerate SAP migrations to Azure, and drive business growth through shared resources and incentives.Foster collaboration among SAP partners to share knowledge, best practices, and innovative solutions.
13/11/2025
GPT‑5.1 in Foundry: A Workhorse for Reasoning, Coding, and Chat
Today marks a significant moment for enterprise AI innovation: Azure AI Foundry is unveiling OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 series, the next generation of reasoning, analytics, and conversational intelligence.The GPT-5.1 series is built to respond faster to users in a variety of situations with adaptive reasoning, improving latency and cost efficiency across the series by varying thinking time more significantly.The GPT-5.1 series is now available in Foundry Models.
13/11/2025
New Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader Certification
The Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader Certification validates your expertise in these skills.Take advantage of the discounted beta exam offer.Get ready to take Exam AB-731 (beta):
13/11/2025
Learn to deploy Teams Rooms on Windows in minutes with Autopilot + Auto-login!
It’s never been easier to deploy Teams Rooms on Windows devices at scale than with Autopilot and Auto-login, you or your Microsoft Teams Rooms partner can securely deploy Teams Rooms in minutes.There are various ways to collect and upload the Autopilot information:Since each Teams Room device is a bit different, we’ve partnered with each Teams Rooms manufacturer to create instructional videos with their best practice recommendations for how to use Autopilot + Autologin to deploy their Teams Rooms on Windows devices including how they recommend uploading the device Autopilot information.
13/11/2025
Partner Blog | Know before you go: Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite is almost here.You will hear from Microsoft engineering and business leaders, explore new AI product capabilities, and see how partners are scaling intelligent solutions in the market.The experience brings together deep technical content, hands-on learning, networking opportunities, and direct engagement with experts who are shaping the future of cloud and AI platforms.
13/11/2025
New Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional Certification
If this is your skill set, we have a new Microsoft Certification for you.The Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional Certification validates your expertise in these skills.Take advantage of the discounted beta exam offer.
13/11/2025
Secure Boot playbook for certificates expiring in 2026
The first set of tools and steps are now available to help you proactively update your Secure Boot certificates before they expire in June of 2026.To get the updates that include the Group Policy for deploying Secure Boot certificate updates, download the latest Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 and Windows Server.Check the Secure Boot status of your devices before and after deployment.
13/11/2025
Build your first AI Agent with Azure App Service
Azure App Service is the go-to platform for building your first AI application because it eliminates infrastructure complexity while delivering enterprise-grade capabilities.As a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), it offers native integration with Azure AI services like Azure OpenAI, built-in DevOps support with GitHub Actions and Codespaces, and multi-language flexibility so you can build with what you know.Getting Started with AI on App Service
13/11/2025
[Public Preview] Introducing Customizable Security Baseline Policies in Machine Configuration
Background: Azure Machine Configuration remains committed to enabling greater security and simplicity in at-scale server management for all Azure customers.Machine Configuration (previously known as Azure Policy Guest Configuration) enables both built-in and custom configuration as code allowing you to audit and configure OS, app, and workload level settings at scale, both for machines running in Azure and hybrid Azure Arc-enabled servers.We’re excited to announce Public Preview support for Customizable Security Baselines in Azure Policy and Machine Configuration.
13/11/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep 25 | Scaling Smart: Automated Collaboration and AI Governance
Without a governance plan, AI agents, Copilot integrations, and Power Platform apps can quickly spiral into a security, compliance, and productivity nightmare.That product evolved into Rencore, a SaaS platform hosted on Azure that now helps enterprises govern collaboration, low-code development, and AI environments at scale.Matt calls it agent sprawl — and without Copilot governance and lifecycle management, it’s a ticking compliance and security time bomb.
13/11/2025
Sploitlight: Hunting Beyond the Patch
In early 2025 Microsoft disclosed CVE-2025-31199, a macOS vulnerability that abused Spotlight, macOS’s metadata importer framework to bypass Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC). After the Defender team reported this to Apple, a patch was released that closed the hole.[1] So, in this article, we teach you how to hunt beyond the patch!We recommend hunting for patterns around importers, indexing behavior, and TCC privileged binaries to help detect attempts to rebuild this chain of abuse.
13/11/2025
New: Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals
The Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals Certification validates that you understand what's required to support and protect an AI-enabled Microsoft 365 environment.The new Certification shows employers that you understand how to configure, secure, and govern Copilot and agents across Microsoft 365 to help keep your organization productive and compliant, that you know the fundamentals of identity, security, and compliance so you can support AI adoption, and that you not only know how to use AI but also how to enable and manage AI in the workplace.Take advantage of the discounted beta exam offer.
13/11/2025
Introducing Customizable Security Baselines in Azure Policy and Machine Configuration
Machine Configuration (previously known as Azure Policy Guest Configuration) enables both built-in and custom configuration as code allowing you to audit and configure OS, app, and workload level settings at scale, both for machines running in Azure and hybrid Azure Arc-enabled servers.We’re excited to announce Public Preview support for Customizable Security Baselines in Azure Policy and Machine Configuration.This feature empowers you to tailor industry security benchmarks—such as CIS benchmarks for Linux or Azure Security Baselines for Windows and Linux —to align with your organization’s unique compliance standards across both Azure and Arc-connected machines.
13/11/2025
Microsoft 365 Insider program turns 10!
The Microsoft 365 Insider program is 10 years old today!And many of those have been influenced by and benefited from your feedback.Tell us in the comments below, or respond to our polls on X, LinkedIn, and Threads.
13/11/2025
Consolidate & Conquer: Driving Business Transformation with Integrated Security (Part 1 of 2)
In the evolving cybersecurity landscape, the choice between a unified security platform and a point solution is a strategic one with far-reaching implications.This two-part blog series examines the strategic decision organizations face between adopting a unified security platform and relying on multiple point solutions in cybersecurity.This post peels back the marketing hype and lays out the hard numbers from Forrester’s TEI report and dozens of customer stories: dramatic cost savings, 80% faster response times, 75% fewer costly breaches, and measurable bumps to your margin, EPS and ROE.
13/11/2025
Building brighter futures: How YES tackles youth unemployment with Azure Database for MySQL
Youth unemployment is one of South Africa’s most persistent challenges with more than half of young people struggling to secure their first job.As South Africa’s largest youth employment initiative, YES connects young people with 12-month work placements, learning programs, and job-matching services.YES’s mission is to break the cycle of inexperience and unemployment and create pathways for youth into permanent work or entrepreneurship.
13/11/2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Fine-Tuning
Use Enhanced Filtering for Connectors (“skip listing”) when necessaryIf you’re routing inbound mail through a third-party Secure Email Gateway or an on-prem hop before Microsoft 365, Defender will see that intermediary as the source IP instead of the original sending IP, which degrades anti-spoofing effectiveness.Enhanced Filtering for Connectors — also called skip listing — lets Microsoft 365 look past that last hop and evaluate the real sending IP and headers, so SPF / DKIM / DMARC and anti-spam logic work correctly. This setting does not support centralized mail routing (unless the routing is linear; see the Enhanced Filtering for Connectors learn article), so make sure you are not using that before enabling Enhanced Filtering. Centralized routing is sometimes used by organizations running a hybrid Exchange deployment, connecting Exchange Online with an on-premises Exchange Server organization. Important: Do this instead of blanket SCL -1 transport rules that “bypass spam filtering for anything coming from our gateway.”Turn on Safe Attachments protection beyond email (SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams) In the Safe Attachments “Global settings,” make sure Defender for Office 365 is set to protect files in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams.
13/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 13, 2025
Learn about 197 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs.ArcGIS for Microsoft Fabric enables spatial analysis at any scale, leveraging Apache Spark for uncovering patterns.UST offers a solution by migrating Hyperdrive to Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, providing security, scalability, and cost savings.
13/11/2025
News to Know – Volume 2, Edition 9, November 2025
However, since we are still working on enhancements to give Admins more control over user data management, especially regarding Entra Delete Signals, we will continue to pause Entra Delete Signal in Viva Glint until the end of June 2026. Now generally available in Viva Glint, this report highlights the relationships between employee survey scores and workplace activity and collaboration patterns without custom analysis.Be among the first to experience Copilot Highlights, a new dashboard feature in Viva Glint that delivers instant, actionable summaries of survey results—spotlighting team strengths, opportunities, and engagement trends at a glance.
13/11/2025
Keeping Content Fresh in the SharePoint FAQ Web Part - Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot
We are excited to introduce the latest updates coming to the SharePoint FAQ web part, designed to help content owners keep FAQ content accurate, engaging, and always up to date.These enhancements make it simple to keep FAQs accurate and engaging - thanks to on-demand AI-suggested updates, seamless import of existing FAQs, SharePoint Page as grounding references, and the new ability to copy and share individual Q&A links with your audience.Enhance answer reliability by grounding FAQ responses in your own SharePoint content.
13/11/2025
Part III: OTEL sidecar extension on Azure App Service for Linux - Language cheat-sheet
Building on Part II (and Part I), here’s a concise matrix for PHP, Python, Node.js, and .NET, plus the key app settings and quick troubleshooting steps. We’ve published a repo with working samples for PHP, Node.js, Python, and .NET showing both code-based and container-based setups using the OTEL sidecar extensions.With the OpenTelemetry sidecar extensions for Azure Monitor and Elastic APM, App Service for Linux makes end-to-end observability a drop-in add-on for both code and container apps. Grab the sample repo, wire up your connection string or token, and give it a try.
13/11/2025
Part II: OTEL sidecar extension on Azure App Service for Linux - Elastic APM setup
Picking up from Part I, this post shows how to obtain the Elastic APM Server URL and Secret token, add the OTEL Elastic sidecar, and validate telemetry in Kibana.The only differences are - get your Elastic APM Server URL and Secret token, choose the OpenTelemetry – Elastic APM extension, and set Elastic-specific app settings.We’ve published a repo with working samples for PHP, Node.js, Python, and .NET showing both code-based and container-based setups using the OTEL sidecar extensions.
13/11/2025
Demystifying GitHub Copilot Security Controls: easing concerns for organizational adoption
Often, this hesitation isn't due to reluctance but stems from organizational concerns around security and regulatory compliance.In this blog, I'll demystify the most common security concerns about GitHub Copilot and explain how its built-in features address them, empowering organizations to confidently modernize their development workflows.With GitHub Copilot agent mode, the "Terminal auto approve” setting in VS Code can be used to prevent this.
13/11/2025
How to Build a Fully Functional Custom GPT-style Conversational AI Locally Using Hugging Face Transformers
In this tutorial, we build our own custom GPT-style chat system from scratch using a local Hugging Face model.We start by loading a lightweight instruction-tuned model that understands conversational prompts, then wrap it inside a structured chat framework that includes a system role, user memory, and assistant responses.We define how the agent interprets […]
13/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #6: Major Upgrade Blocked by Password Auth (The One-Change Fix)
PostgreSQL 11 on Flexible Server requires SCRAM to be enabled before attempting an in‑place major version upgrade to higher versions.The service precheck blocks the upgrade if the server is still on password/MD5‑only auth.1) Enable SCRAM on the server
13/11/2025
Part I: OTEL sidecar extension on Azure App Service for Linux - Intro + PHP walkthrough
Sidecar extensions let you attach a companion container to your App Service for Linux app to add capabilities—without changing your core app or container.In this post, we’ll use the new sidecar extension—OpenTelemetry - Azure Monitor and show end-to-end setup for a PHP code-based apps (the same extension will also work for other language stacks and container-based apps).Walkthrough: add the OpenTelemetry – Azure Monitor sidecar to a PHP (code-based) app
13/11/2025
Introducing AI Playground on Azure App Service for Linux
If you’re running a Small Language Model (SLM) as a sidecar with your web app, there’s now a faster way to try prompts, measure latency, and copy working code into your app—all without leaving your site. AI Playground is a lightweight, built-in experience available from the Kudu endpoint for every Linux App Service.AI Playground is a simple UI that talks to the SLM you’ve attached to your App Service app (for example, Phi or BitNet via the Sidecar extension).
13/11/2025
OpenAI Introduces GPT-5.1: Combining Adaptive Reasoning, Account Level Personalization, And Updated Safety Metrics In The GPT-5 Stack
OpenAI has released GPT-5.1 as the next iteration in the GPT-5 family, with 2 core variants, GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking.The update focuses on 3 axes, adaptive reasoning behavior, clearer explanations, and stronger control over tone and safety.Model Lineup And Positioning GPT-5.1 Instant is the default conversational model in ChatGPT.
13/11/2025
The Copilot Studio User Group Has A New Group For Community Events!
Where Will Events Be Held For The Copilot Studio User Group?We've Decided To Use Microsoft GroupMe Event Groups For Hosting Virtual Chat Based Events Where Can I Access The Event Group?You Can Access It Here Events Will Be Published Through The Space Where We Will Be Using GroupMe Event Groups To Host Events That Are Chat-Based Virtual Events For Members That Can’t Physically Attend In Person For EventsRequirements Must Be In The
12/11/2025
Meet the Maker: The Communicator’s Guide to AI – Live with Elaine Q. Chang
Join us for the next edition of "AI for Communicators," a special First Fridays session featuring Elaine Q. Chang—Technical Advisor to Microsoft’s Chief Communications Officer and co-creator of the LinkedIn Learning course, The Communicator’s Guide to AI: Tools and Mindsets for Modern PR and Media.Elaine brings nearly two decades of experience spanning engineering, communications, and business strategy, making this an unmissable event for anyone navigating the evolving landscape of AI in communications.Interactive “Meet the Maker” Format: Elaine will unpack the ACT (Aspire, Choose, Tune) strategy and show how it translates into real-world comms workflows, from announcement planning to media Q&A prep and narrative development.
12/11/2025
Your Guide to Azure AI Foundry @ Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite is where innovation meets execution—and this year, Azure AI Foundry is at the heart of it all.Kick off Ignite with a visionary look at building AI apps and agents at scale.Agentic identity and other enterprise superpowers in Azure AI Foundry (BRK186): Hear how Commerzbank drives agentic AI at scale and discover how Azure AI Foundry agents meet enterprise standards for identity, connectivity, extensibility, and lifecycle management and dive into Entra Agent ID.
12/11/2025
Unlock bigger deals with flexible billing and five-year terms in Microsoft Marketplace
Many partners are already leveraging flexible billing and multi-year terms to close larger, more strategic deals in the Microsoft Marketplace.Now, with flexible billing, you can set custom billing schedules with up to 70 installments over the duration of the contract.Flexible billing for private offers - This demo video shows software development companies how to create a direct customer private offers with a flexible billing schedule.
12/11/2025
Boost SaaS revenue with Microsoft Marketplace: A step-by-step guide
For SaaS companies, the Microsoft Marketplace has evolved from being a procurement convenience to becoming a strategic revenue engine.But while publishing a listing is easy, closing the first transaction quickly is what separates software development companies who scale on Marketplace from those who stall.It goes beyond “how to list” and focuses on what really drives velocity: operational readiness, CRM-native automation, seller engagement, trust signals, and AI-enabled acceleration.
12/11/2025
MiniMax-M2: The Open-Source Innovator in Coding and Agentic Workflows Now in Azure AI Foundry
We’re thrilled to announce that MiniMax-M2, the latest breakthrough from MiniMax, is now available in Azure AI Foundry through Hugging Face.Built for developers, this model advances capabilities for what’s possible in coding, multi-turn reasoning, and agentic workflows—while delivering enhanced efficiency and scalability.MiniMax-M2 isn’t just another large language model—it’s a 230B-parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture that activates 10B parameters per task, ensuring better performance at a lower cost.
12/11/2025
Partner Blog | Azure updates for partners: November 2025
Across our partner ecosystem, I’m seeing a decisive shift from exploring what’s possible with AI and cloud to executing with focus, scale, and sustainable impact. Azure Accelerate and momentum in the Microsoft Marketplace give partners like you a strong foundation to align investments and deliver outcomes that matter. It is where ideas become practice and where partners shape what is possible for customers.From November 18–21 in San Francisco and online, you will hear directly from our product leaders, preview the latest in Azure and AI innovation, and connect with peers who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Make time for ancillary events, interactive roundtables, and the Partner Hub to build new skills, expand your network, and explore hands-on opportunities to advance your work.
12/11/2025
Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.4
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.4, bringing significant enhancements across all SSMA flavors to further streamline your database modernization journey to Azure SQL and SQL Server.Support for SQL Server 2025General Availability of Oracle PL/SQL to SQL Code Conversion Copilot
12/11/2025
Congratulations to the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards winners and finalists
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards celebrate that impact.In addition to the global award categories, we’re recognizing partners from over 80 countries and regions as part of the Country and Region Partner of the Year Awards.We’ll celebrate these achievements together at Microsoft Ignite, taking place November 18–21, 2025.
12/11/2025
DNS flow trace logs in Azure Firewall are now generally available
DNS Proxy, a key capability in Azure Firewall, enables the firewall to act as a DNS forwarder for DNS traffic.Today, we’re introducing the general availability of DNS flow trace logs — a new logging capability that provides end-to-end visibility into DNS traffic and name resolution across your environment, such as viewing critical metadata including query types, response codes, queried domains, upstream DNS servers, and the source and destination IPs of each request.Existing Azure Firewall DNS Proxy logs provide visibility for DNS queries as they initially pass through Azure Firewall.
12/11/2025
Announcing public preview of query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor metric alerts now support all Azure metrics—including platform, Prometheus, and custom metrics—giving you complete coverage for your monitoring needs.In addition, metric alerts now offer powerful query capabilities with PromQL, enabling complex logic across multiple metrics and resources.Full metrics coverage: metric alerts now support alerting on any Azure metrics including platform metrics, Prometheus metrics and custom metrics.If you have an Azure Monitor workspace containing Prometheus or OpenTelemetry metrics, you can create query-based metric alert rules today.
12/11/2025
Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.4
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v10.4, bringing significant enhancements across all SSMA flavors to further streamline your database modernization journey to Azure SQL and SQL Server.With SSMA 10.4, you can now fully discover, assess, convert schema, and migrate data to SQL Server 2025.This includes:We are introducing a new Microsoft-managed endpoint that enables SSMA Copilot usage through Microsoft Entra ID authentication, without requiring customers to bring their own Azure OpenAI subscription.
12/11/2025
Datasets for Training a Language Model
A good language model should learn correct language usage, free of biases and errors.
12/11/2025
Ignite 2025: New Microsoft Sentinel Connectors Announcement
BlinkOps is an enterprise-ready agentic security automation platform that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Sentinel to accelerate incident response and streamline operations.Proofpoint’s Targeted Attack Protection (TAP), part of its Core Email Protection, integrates with Microsoft Sentinel to centralize email security telemetry for advanced threat detection and response.Samsung’s Knox Asset Intelligence integration with Microsoft Sentinel equips security teams with near real-time visibility into mobile device threats across Samsung Galaxy enterprise fleets.
12/11/2025
Announcing the BizTalk Server 2020 Cumulative Update 7
The BizTalk Server product team has released the Cumulative Update 7 for BizTalk Server 2020.The Cumulative Update 7 contains all released functional and security fixes for customer-reported issues for BizTalk Server 2020.If you are running BizTalk 2016, or earlier versions of the product, you must upgrade to BizTalk Server 2020 CU6 or strongly consider migrating to Azure Logic Apps.
12/11/2025
Detect more, spend less: the future of threat intelligence correlation
We are simplifying the process of making your threat intelligence actionable while keeping costs in check.With Microsoft Sentinel SIEM and Defender XDR, you can now ingest threat intelligence feeds through Sentinel and enrich XDR incidents without the need to ingest XDR into the SIEM.This integration provides deeper insights during investigations and enhances threat hunting capabilities.
12/11/2025
Spotlight on… Volume 1, Edition 2, November 2025
We’re excited to introduce Copilot Highlights—a new capability in Viva Glint that helps leaders quickly interpret employee survey results using the power of AI.Now available in private preview, Copilot Highlights brings clarity to your Team Summary and Executive Summary reports by surfacing strengths, opportunities, and trends that matter most.Copilot Highlights generates concise, actionable summaries from your existing survey data.
12/11/2025
Detect more, spend less: the future of threat intelligence correlation
We’ve made it easier for customers leveraging Microsoft’s SIEM and XDR.Now, customers can create custom detections that correlate threat intelligence from feeds brought in through the SIEM with their XDR data, without the need to ingest their XDR data as well.Create custom detection rules in Microsoft Defender XDR - Microsoft Defender XDR |
12/11/2025
What’s New for Python on App Service for Linux: pyproject.toml, uv, and more
Python apps on Azure App Service for Linux just got a lot easier to build and ship!We’ve modernized the build pipeline to support new deployment options —whether you’re on classic setup.py, fully on pyproject.toml with Poetry or uv, or somewhere in between.This post walks through five upgrades that reduce friction end-to-end—from local dev to GitHub Actions to the App Service build environment:
12/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 12, 2025
Learn about 157 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs.Connector for SharePoint: This app from BC Wizards connects Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with SharePoint to simplify data sharing and document management.Go further with workshops, proofs of concept, and implementations
12/11/2025
Enhancing SharePoint with ready-to-use intranet apps - Accelerator 365 - SharePoint Partner Showcase
We are excited to share a new episode on our partner showcase series focused on SharePoint in Microsoft 365.Accelerator 365 by Reply helps organizations get more from Microsoft 365 by enhancing SharePoint Online with ready-to-use intranet apps.In this brief discussion and demonstration, Glyn Clough, Product Owner at Accelerator 365, joins Vesa Juvonen from Microsoft to explore the various solutions that Accelerator 365 offers for SharePoint Online.
12/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned#5: Why SKU Changes from Non-Confidential to Confidential Fail
The customer attempted to change the server configuration from Standard_D4ds_v5 (non-Confidential Compute) to Standard_DC4ads_v5 (Confidential Compute) in the West Europe region.The goal was to enhance the performance and security profile of the server.However, the SKU change could not be completed due to a mismatch in security profiles between the current and target SKUs.The issue occurred because SKU changes from non-Confidential to Confidential Compute types are not supported in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.
12/11/2025
Retirement Date for Office Online Server (OOS) Announced
We would like to inform our SharePoint Server customers that Microsoft has announced the retirement of Office Online Server (OOS), effective December 31, 2026 - Announcing the retirement for Office Online Server. Office Online Server (formerly known as Office Web Apps Server) is a product that can be optionally integrated with SharePoint Server. Users will lose the ability to view, edit, and collaborate on Office documents directly in the browser.This announcement does not impact Microsoft's support for SharePoint Server, and there are no plans to retire SharePoint Server Subscription Edition.
12/11/2025
Real‑Time AI Streaming with Azure OpenAI and SignalR
We’ll build a real-time AI app where Azure OpenAI streams responses and SignalR broadcasts them live to an Angular client.You’ll learn the architecture, streaming code, Angular integration, and optional enhancements like typing indicators and multi-agent scenarios.An Angular client that connects over WebSockets/SSE to the hub and renders partial content with a typing indicator.
12/11/2025
Announcing Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 (public preview)
Since its first introduction in 2019, the Azure Security Benchmark and its successor Microsoft cloud security benchmark announced in 2023, Microsoft cloud security benchmark (“the Benchmark”) has been widely used by our customers to secure their Azure environments, especially as a security bible and toolkit for Azure security implementation planning and helping the security compliance on various industry and government regulatory standards.We’re thrilled to announce the Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 (public preview), a new Benchmark version with the enhancement in following areas:Microsoft Defender for Cloud update
12/11/2025
Observability for Multi-Agent Systems with Microsoft Agent Framework and Azure AI Foundry
In this post, you'll learn how to instrument a Microsoft Agent Framework–based service with OpenTelemetry, ship traces to Azure AI Foundry observability, and adopt a practical workflow to debug, evaluate, and improve multi-agent behavior in production.We'll show how to wire spans around reasoning steps and tool calls (OpenAPI / MCP), enabling deep visibility into your agentic workflows.Developers building agents with Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) in .NET or Python
12/11/2025
How to Build an End-to-End Interactive Analytics Dashboard Using PyGWalker Features for Insightful Data Exploration
In this tutorial, we explore the advanced capabilities of PyGWalker, a powerful tool for visual data analysis that integrates seamlessly with pandas.We begin by generating a realistic e-commerce dataset enriched with time, demographic, and marketing features to mimic real-world business data.We then prepare multiple analytical views, including daily sales, category performance, and customer […]
12/11/2025
Baidu Releases ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking: An Open-Source and Compact Multimodal Reasoning Model Under the ERNIE-4.5 Family
How can we get large model level multimodal reasoning for documents, charts and videos while running only a 3B class model in production?Baidu has added a new model to the ERNIE-4.5 open source family.ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking is a vision language model that focuses on document, chart and video understanding with a small active parameter budget.
12/11/2025
How to Reduce Cost and Latency of Your RAG Application Using Semantic LLM Caching
Semantic caching in LLM (Large Language Model) applications optimizes performance by storing and reusing responses based on semantic similarity rather than exact text matches.When a new query arrives, it’s converted into an embedding and compared with cached ones using similarity search.The post How to Reduce Cost and Latency of Your RAG Application Using Semantic LLM Caching appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/11/2025
Build Your Own Custom Copilots with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Oracle Database@Azure
With Microsoft Copilot Studio, organizations can now easily build custom copilots that securely connect to live Oracle data, providing natural language access to insights and actions within Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, or any business application.Oracle Database@Azure provides customers the flexibility to run Oracle workloads on Azure using Exadata, Autonomous, Exascale, or Base Database services without compromising performance or compliance.These layers ensure copilots that access Oracle Database@Azure or hybrid Oracle environments remain secure, governed, and compliant by design critical for regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.
11/11/2025
Maya1: A New Open Source 3B Voice Model For Expressive Text To Speech On A Single GPU
Maya Research has released Maya1, a 3B parameter text to speech model that turns text plus a short description into controllable, expressive speech while running in real time on a single GPU.Maya1 is a state of the art speech model for expressive voice generation.It is built to capture real […]
11/11/2025
Build Your Ignite Schedule: Top Sessions for Developers
Welcome back to our Azure Tech Community Microsoft Ignite 2025 series!Use the Microsoft Ignite session scheduler feature in the session catalog to personalize your agenda, save your favorites, and organize your time at Microsoft Ignite. Building and deploying data agents in Microsoft Fabric (THR738)Learn how to build, deploy, and manage intelligent data agents in Microsoft Fabric using curated data, Git-powered CI/CD, and best practices for enterprise-scale AI integration.
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU21
The Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM CU21 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2022 RTM CUs, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2022 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2022 RTM, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU32
The Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM CU32 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2019 RTM CUs, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
ZoomIt v9.20, Process Explorer v17.07, and RDCMan v3.11
This update to ZoomIt, a screen magnification and annotation tool, can now save screen recordings as either MP4 or GIF.This update to Process Explorer, an advanced process, DLL, and handle viewing utility, adds strings for Arm64 binaries, and fixes a bug that disabled notification area icons.This update to RDCMan enables Entra ID logins.
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM
The Security Update for SQL Server 2019 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2019 RTM, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM CU31
The Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM CU31 is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2017 RTM CUs, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2017 RTM GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2017 RTM, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack
The Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2016 SP3 Azure Connect Feature Pack, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 GDR
The Security Update for SQL Server 2016 SP3 GDR is now available for download at the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update Catalog sites.This package cumulatively includes all previous security fixes for SQL Server 2016 SP3, plus it includes the new security fixes detailed in the KB Article.Latest Updates for Microsoft SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/releases/download-and-install-latest-updates
11/11/2025
Windows 11 expands passkey manager support
This new capability empowers users to choose their favorite passkey manager — whether it’s Microsoft Password Manager or trusted third-party providers.It’s generally available with the Windows November 2025 security update.Saving a passkey to the Microsoft Password Manager plugin on Windows
11/11/2025
Copilot Governance: A Practical Guide From Our 4‑Part Webinar Series
Session 1: Foundations in the M365 Admin CenterDeployment approach, the Copilot Control System, access and billing controls, and how to highlight or restrict agents.Session 2: Copilot Studio + Power Platform GovernanceManaged Environments, environment routing, DLP strategy, connector risk controls, and cost management for agents.YouTube Video Playlist
11/11/2025
Reimagining Healthcare Through Data: Lessons from the Frontlines
When data is unified and powered by AI, care transforms from reactive to proactive, predictive, and personalized.Two nonprofits—Operation Smile and Arcare—are proving what’s possible with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI, turning data into action and impact:This isn’t just about technology—it’s about building a more humane healthcare system where every patient matters.
11/11/2025
From Strategy to Execution: Operationalizing Microsoft Entra for Real-World Impact
How can organizations harness the full power of Microsoft Entra to drive security, agility, and compliance at scale?The answer lies in operationalizing Entra’s capabilities across your identity lifecycle, access policies, and multicloud environments—while aligning with your Zero Trust journey.Microsoft Entra’s identity protection extends beyond Microsoft environments.Microsoft Entra is more than a suite of tools—it’s a strategic enabler for secure digital transformation.
11/11/2025
Building AI Agents: Workflow-First vs. Code-First vs. Hybrid
In this article, I’ll walk you through the landscape of AI Agent design.We’ll look at workflow-first approaches with drag-and-drop designers, code-first approaches using SDKs, and hybrid models that combine both.I’ve been exploring Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF), an open-source foundation for building AI agents that can run anywhere.
11/11/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep 24 | From New Jersey to Milan: The Art (and Business) of International Microsoft Partnerships
In a recent episode of IAMCP Profiles in Partnership “From New Jersey to Milan: Navigating International Microsoft Partnerships”, co-founders Paymon Jelvani and Dominick Zappia join hosts Anthony Carrano and Rudy Rodriguez in pulling back the curtain on how they’ve built a reputation as the go-to U.S. partner for European Microsoft solution providers — and why their approach to partner-to-partner collaboration is rooted in responsiveness, cultural fluency, and customer advocacy.One of Admiral’s recent wins involved an Italian sportswear and boxing gear company expanding into the U.S. market.The International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) exists to foster exactly these kinds of collaborations.
11/11/2025
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA)
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 GA is now availableThe SSMS team is thrilled to announce the general availability release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22!For the first time in SSMS history, we released two GA versions.
11/11/2025
No Exchange Server Security Updates for November 2025
Although Exchange 2016 and 2019 are now out of support, some customers have purchased the Exchange 2016 and 2019 Extended Security Update (ESU).We have therefore decided that until the end of this Exchange 2016 and 2019 ESU period (April 2026) we will make an explicit update related announcement even if we DO NOT release anything for that particular month.There are no security releases for any version of Exchange Server in November 2025, for customers with Exchange SE, or Exchange 2016 or 2019 ESU.
11/11/2025
Partner Case Study | Nissan Philippines
With decades of experience and a global presence, their Technosoft Yana Automotive Solution (TAS, or Yana) is designed to provide dealers the holistic view they need by integrating employee resource planning (ERP), customer resource management (CRM), and digital marketing, empowering dealers to deliver smarter, faster, and more personalized customer experiences.Unifying data sprawl across 58 dealershipsNissan Philippines oversees a network of 58 dealerships across the islands, importing vehicles from Japan and Thailand for distribution to local markets.
11/11/2025
No Skype for Business Server Security Updates for November 2025
Although Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 are now out of support, some customers have purchased the Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 Extended Security Update (ESU).We have therefore decided that until the end of this Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 ESU period (April 2026) we will make an explicit update related announcement even if we DO NOT release anything for that particular month. There are no security releases for any version of Skype for Business Server in November 2025, for customers with SfB SE, or SfB 2016 or 2019 ESU.
11/11/2025
General Availability of JavaScript Challenge in Azure Front Door WAF
We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of the JavaScript Challenge feature for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door.This capability equips organizations with a seamless, invisible anti-bot verification layer that distinguishes legitimate users from malicious scripts helping protect web applications from automated threats while preserving a smooth user experience.The JavaScript Challenge introduces a lightweight, browser-based verification step that helps distinguish legitimate users from automated scripts without requiring user interaction.
11/11/2025
Generational Performance Leap for Azure Confidential Computing
Azure confidential VMs, powered by the latest 4th generation AMD EPYC™ processors, deliver both next-generation performance and hardware-enforced security, fundamentally shifting the conversation from a security trade-off to a performance dividend.Enterprises are required to handle sensitive information or personal data like transactions, analytics or intellectual property (IP) while operating under strict compliance regimes like GDPR or HIPAA can now seamlessly transition to the cloud, running their high performance, mission-critical applications on Azure’s latest confidential VMs.While uncertainty surrounding the performance overhead of enabling confidential computing features and performance gaps, confidential computing has broadened its appeal as processors leap forward in both performance and capabilities with each successive generation.
11/11/2025
The invisible attack surface: hunting AI threats in Defender XDR
Its AI threat protection detects prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, and misuse of credentials in real time, correlating those signals with endpoint, identity, and cloud telemetry through Microsoft Defender XDR.As of 2025, Defender for AI is fully integrated into Microsoft Defender for Cloud, extending protection to AI models, prompts, and datasets across Azure AI workloads.In this post, we’ll walk through practical KQL hunts to surface suspicious AI activity, from abnormal model usage patterns to subtle signs of data exfiltration that traditional detections might miss.
11/11/2025
Accelerate Cloud Migration with Wave Planning in Azure Migrate
Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of wave planning in Azure Migrate - a new capability designed to make large-scale migrations more manageable and predictable.With wave planning, you can now organize your migration journey into logical, iterative waves, enabling your teams to plan, execute, and track progress with greater speed, confidence, and control.Using wave planning you can perform the migration and modernization activities of the application withing the wave, as per the plan and track the progress as workloads are moved, tested, and migrated / modernized in Azure.
11/11/2025
The Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment: Helping you operationalize the hardening of your Microsoft security products
Building on these learnings, we’re excited to announce the public preview of the Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment tool, designed to help you identify common security gaps starting with Identity and Device pillars with the remaining pillars of Zero Trust coming soon. This assessment is informed by our own SFI learnings and aligned with widely recognized frameworks such as CISA’s SCuBA project.A deep dive into how the Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment works including report structure, prioritization logic, and implementation guidance is available below in this blog. The Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment empowers teams to make informed decisions, reduce blind spots, and prioritize remediation, turning insights into action. Once you download and run the tool (installation guide), it will assess your policy configurations and scan objects to generate a comprehensive report that not only highlights gaps and risks but also explains what was checked, why a test failed, and how your organization can implement the recommended configuration. This makes the results immediately actionable; security teams know exactly what steps to take next. The report features an overview page that presents aggregated data across your tenant, highlighting overall risk levels, patterns, and trends.We will be launching new SFI-infused assessments across the other pillars of Zero Trust in the coming months.
11/11/2025
Research Drop: Empowering Managers for an AI-First Future
Managers are a catalyst of AI transformation as they bridge strategy and execution, but only 56% of managers feel they have the support they need to integrate AI agents into their work.Yet progress is lagging: recent research reveals a 66% gap between those who acknowledge the importance of reinventing the role of the middle manager and those who are making real progress in addressing it2.Research consistently shows that managers are multipliers of positive change.
11/11/2025
MVPs with Microphones: How Three MVPs Amplify a Global Community with The Presentation Podcast
Born from Troy Chollar’s vision to create a space where experts could share, debate, and elevate the craft of presentation design, and produced by his firm TLC Creative Services. Our podcast, which is now in its 10th year, quickly became a trusted resource for the PowerPoint community.We try to get as many PowerPoint MVPs together as we can for at least one episode each year (often during the Microsoft MVP Summit) where we explore how being part of the Microsoft MVP community has shaped our careers, expanded our networks, and given us a platform to advocate for better presentation practices – and application (PowerPoint) improvements.New episodes drop on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, keeping the rhythm steady and the content fresh.
11/11/2025
PrivyDoc: Building a Zero-Data-Leak AI with Foundry Local & Microsoft's Agent Framework
In this article, I want to take you on a journey through the creation of PrivyDoc, a secure, on-device document intelligence solution I built to address this challenge head-on.We'll explore how it uses two powerful Microsoft technologies, Foundry Local and the Microsoft Agent Framework, to bring the AI to the data, not the other way around.The Core Problem: Data Privacy vs. AI Insights
11/11/2025
October 2025 Recap: Azure Database for PostgreSQL
We are excited to bring October 2025 recap blog for Azure Database for PostgreSQL!This blog focuses on key announcements around the General Availability of the REST API for 2025, maintenance payload visibility and several new features aimed at improving performance and a guide on minimizing downtime for MVU operation with logical replication.The Azure Database for PostgreSQL team participated in PGConf EU 2025, delivering insightful sessions on key PostgreSQL advancements.
11/11/2025
How Can I Participate On The Copilot Studio User Group On The Microsoft Tech Community?
This Is An Official Copilot Studio User Group Help Article On How To Participate On The Copilot Studio User Group On The Microsoft Tech Community It’s Not An Official Copilot Studio User Group Policy Or Copilot Studio User Group Guideline How To Participate On The Copilot Studio User Group?There Are Many Practical Ways To Participate On The Copilot Studio User Group & Here’s How You Can Participate On The Microsoft Copilot Studio User Group:Participate In Virtual Chat Based EventsStart Discussions That Are Focused On Microsoft Copilot StudioIntroduce Yourself On The Thread Post Comments On Discussions That Are Based On Microsoft Copilot StudioShow The Copilot User Group What Copilot Your Building Or Working On
11/11/2025
ALVAO and EQUMAS offer transactable partner solutions in Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft partners like ALVAO and EQUMAS deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Microsoft Marketplace.Learn about these offers below:EQUMAS Multi-Modal Quality Management System: EQUMAS provides manufacturing companies with an integrated solution for managing their entire operational workflow, saving time and energy by eliminating the need to coordinate with multiple software systems.
11/11/2025
Surface Highlights at Microsoft Ignite 2025
This year, Microsoft Ignite will be hosted at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from November 18–21, 2025.Discover key highlights of our Surface Lab Tour brought to you by engineers and expertsJoin open-table discussions on topics such as Hybrid AI and connect with Surface MVPs who are contributing to breakout session visibility and community engagement.
11/11/2025
Expert-Level Feature Engineering: Advanced Techniques for High-Stakes Models
Building machine learning models in high-stakes contexts like finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure often demands robustness, explainability, and other domain-specific constraints.
11/11/2025
Meta AI Releases Omnilingual ASR: A Suite of Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition Models for 1600+ Languages
How do you build a single speech recognition system that can understand 1,000’s of languages including many that never had working ASR (automatic speech recognition) models before?Meta AI has released Omnilingual ASR, an open source speech recognition suite that scales to more than 1,600 languages and can be extended to unseen languages with only […]The post Meta AI Releases Omnilingual ASR: A Suite of Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition Models for 1600+ Languages appeared first on MarkTechPost.
11/11/2025
Adaptive Model Selection in TypeScript with the Model Router
Model Router (preview) in Azure AI Foundry gives you a single chat deployment that intelligently selects an underlying model—small, large, or reasoning—per prompt.In this blog, we will explore what the Model Router is, why to use it, how to implement it in TypeScript, versioning and monitoring strategies.Model Router is a deployable chat model in Azure AI Foundry that routes each prompt to the most suitable underlying chat or reasoning model (for example: gpt‑4.1-mini, gpt‑4.1-nano, o4-mini, gpt‑5 variants etc).
11/11/2025
A Coding Implementation to Build and Train Advanced Architectures with Residual Connections, Self-Attention, and Adaptive Optimization Using JAX, Flax, and Optax
In this tutorial, we explore how to build and train an advanced neural network using JAX, Flax, and Optax in an efficient and modular way.We begin by designing a deep architecture that integrates residual connections and self-attention mechanisms for expressive feature learning.As we progress, we implement sophisticated optimization strategies with learning rate scheduling, […]
11/11/2025
Deriving expiry days and remaining retention days for blobs through blob inventory
In managing data within Azure blob storage accounts and Azure data lake gen 2 storage accounts, organizations often encounter scenarios where blobs have been deleted but remain in a soft-deleted state.The expiry time for Azure blobs is set using the Set Blob Expiry operation.Microsoft Learn to set the expiry time for your blobs.
11/11/2025
Node.js 24 is now available on Azure App Service for Linux
Node.js 24 LTS is live on Azure App Service for Linux. Faster, more modern JavaScript Node.js 24 ships with the V8 13.6 engine and npm 11.This release line is an even-numbered release and has moved into Long Term Support (LTS) in October 2025, which makes it a safe target for production apps.
11/11/2025
Microsoft Azure continues to expand scalability for Healthcare EHR Workloads
Microsoft Azure has reached a new milestone for Epic Chronicles Operational Database (ODB) scalability with the Standard_M416bs_v3 (Mbv3) VM. It can now scale up to 110 million GRefs/s (Global References per second) in the ECP configuration and up to 39 million GRefs/s in the SMP configuration, improving upon the previous Azure benchmarks of 65 million GRefs/s and 20 million GRefs/s respectively.Microsoft Azure now can host 96% of the Epic customer base, enabling healthcare organizations to run their EHR systems on Azure.
11/11/2025
Build Your Microsoft Ignite Schedule: Top Sessions for Solution Architects
Welcome back to our Azure Tech Community Microsoft Ignite 2025 series! Migrate and Modernize Windows and SQL Server Workloads to Azure (LAB506-R1)See how Azure’s modernization framework enables secure, scalable, and cost-efficient migration for enterprise systems. Innovation Session: Security in the Agentic Era – the Core Primitive (BRK1712)Gain a forward-looking perspective on how the rise of Agentic AI will reshape the security landscape for IT operations and enterprise systems.
11/11/2025
Moonshot AI Releases Kosong: The LLM Abstraction Layer that Powers Kimi CLI
Moonshot AI’s Kosong targets this problem as an LLM abstraction layer for agent applications.Kosong unifies message structures, asynchronous tool orchestration and pluggable chat […]The post Moonshot AI Releases Kosong: The LLM Abstraction Layer that Powers Kimi CLI appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/11/2025
Guest Blog: Modernizing your WPF App maps functionality with Azure Maps with OnTerra Systems
With the deprecation of Bing Maps for Enterprise and the Bing Maps WPF Control, organizations that need maps and geospatial functionality in their WPF applications should upgrade to Microsoft’s modern maps and geospatial platform, Azure Maps.Specifically, one approach to migrating from Bing Maps to Azure Maps and continuing with your WPF-based application is to use the OnTerra Systems WPF Map Control, which is built on the Azure Maps Web SDK and includes virtually all of the same functionality as the Bing Maps WPF Control, such as road and aerial/satellite map styles, and pushpin, polygon and polyline overlay support.The OnTerra Systems WPF Map Control is a solution that translates Bing Map WPF Control methods to use the equivalent Azure Maps functionality and renders the map using .NET WebView2.
10/11/2025
Agentic Power for AKS: Introducing the Agentic CLI in Public Preview
We are excited to announce the agentic CLI for AKS, available now in public preview directly through the Azure CLI.The agentic CLI for AKS is designed to simplify this experience by bringing agentic capabilities to your cluster operations and observability, translating natural language into actionable guidance and analysis.The agentic CLI for AKS is built on the open-source HolmesGPT project, which has recently been accepted as a CNCF Sandbox project.
10/11/2025
Gelato-30B-A3B: A State-of-the-Art Grounding Model for GUI Computer-Use Tasks, Surpassing Computer Grounding Models like GTA1-32B
How do we teach AI agents to reliably find and click the exact on screen element we mean when we give them a simple instruction?A team of researchers from ML Foundations has introduced Gelato-30B-A3B, a state of the art grounding model for graphical user interfaces that is designed to plug into computer use agents […]The post Gelato-30B-A3B: A State-of-the-Art Grounding Model for GUI Computer-Use Tasks, Surpassing Computer Grounding Models like GTA1-32B appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/11/2025
Your guide to Azure Compute at Microsoft Ignite 2025
Join Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure.Mark will take you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure architecture and explain how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge.This session will provide a comprehensive exploration of Azure’s security architecture, best practices, and innovations across four pillars: foundational security, compute security, network security, and storage security.
10/11/2025
Priority Replication for Geo Redundant Storage and Object Replication is Generally Available
We are excited to announce the General Availability of priority replication for Geo Redundant Storage (GRS) and Object Replication (OR).Azure Storage has offered users the choice of geo-redundant (GRS) or geo-zone-redundant (GZRS) replication for their storage accounts for several years.Azure Blob Storage is now introducing Geo priority replication which will provide an SLA guarantee for the LST/RPO of Block Blob data in GRS/GZRS accounts.
10/11/2025
Riding the AI Wave: How Microsoft Entra is Evolving for the Agentic Era
A KPMG survey of large organizations revealed that 42% have active AI agents working for them today, up from 11% just six months ago.IDC projects that by 2028, there’ll be 1.3 billion AI agents in large companies in the developed world.Within two years, we'll have over a million active AI agents in the Microsoft tenant.
10/11/2025
Ultimate Guide to the new Workplace Patterns Report in Viva Glint
That’s now a reality with the introduction today of the Workplace Patterns Report, a power tool that integrates point-in-time Viva Insights workplace habit data with point-in-time Viva Glint survey sentiment data.These two data sources empower analysts and admins to identify actionable patterns between how people work (workplace habits), and how they feel (survey sentiment).The Workplace Patterns Report and holistic listening
10/11/2025
Welcome to the Copilot Studio User Group!
🚀 About This Community The Copilot Studio User Group is a virtual community where members share knowledge, experiences, and ideas about using and building with Microsoft Copilot Studio.Our goal is to make Copilot Studio more accessible, collaborative, and fun for everyone — whether you’re experimenting with AI copilots or running automation in your organization.Exchange use cases and demos. Network with fellow makers and technologists.
10/11/2025
Staying in the flow: SleekFlow and Azure turn customer conversations into conversions
SleekFlow was founded in 2019 to help companies turn those almost-lost-customer moments into connection, retention, and growth.Today we serve more than 2,000 mid-market and enterprise organizations across industries including retail and e-commerce, financial services, healthcare, travel and hospitality, telecommunications, real estate, and professional services.In total, those customers rely on SleekFlow to orchestrate more than 600,000 daily customer interactions across WhatsApp, Instagram, web chat, email, and more.
10/11/2025
Localized Labs Retiring: What’s Next?
This decision is based on FY25 data showing 97% of labs were accessed in English and only 3% in localized languages (mainly Japanese).All localized labs will be retired by the end of Q2. Guidance on using browser-based translation tools will be provided.
10/11/2025
Showcase your deep sovereignty expertise with the new Digital Sovereignty specialization
As announced on November 6 during our AI Tour, we're excited to introduce the Digital Sovereignty specialization.We designed this specialization so partners can capitalize on rising demand for sovereign cloud solutions as governments and critical industries seek data sovereignty and security in response to global uncertainty.Starting in early 2026, partners who meet certain criteria can attain the Digital Sovereignty specialization.
10/11/2025
Excel Frontier: Unlocking Agent Mode for Smarter, Autonomous Spreadsheets
Excel’s new Agent Mode (Frontier) empowers users to build intelligent agents that automate workflows, enhance productivity, and uphold responsible AI principles.This blog explores how technical and business leaders can leverage Agent Mode in Excel to create extensible, trustworthy AI solutions, drawing on best practices from recent learning paths and community feedback.Excel’s Agent Mode lets organizations build smart agents for workflow automation and advanced reasoning, using core Excel features and Microsoft’s Frontier program.
10/11/2025
SharePoint and OneDrive at Microsoft Ignite 2025: What to Expect
Next week Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Nov. 18-21) lands in San Francisco’s Moscone Center for the first time!In this session, explore how OneDrive is becoming the launchpad for productivity across Microsoft 365.Learn how SharePoint’s latest AI innovations—like the Knowledge Agent—transform it into an intelligent curator that automates content organization and enrichment.
10/11/2025
OneDrive and SharePoint at Microsoft Ignite 2025: What to Expect
Next week Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Nov. 18-21) lands in San Francisco’s Moscone Center for the first time!It all kicks off with Judson Althoff’s keynote on Tues, Nov 18 @9AM PST.Learn how SharePoint’s latest AI innovations—like the Knowledge Agent—transform it into an intelligent curator that automates content organization and enrichment.
10/11/2025
Migrate or modernize your applications using Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate delivers a major evolution in cloud migration capabilities with application awareness.Improve analysis with Code-Level Insights from Github Copilot assessment and CASTIt provides IT resource discovery, assessment, business case analysis, wave planning, migration, and modernization capabilities in a workload agnostic manner.
10/11/2025
Building Enterprise-Grade Shared AKS Clusters: A Guide to Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Architecture
Accelerate application delivery by providing a hardened shared Kubernetes platform per environment (prod / test / dev).[5m]) > 5 for: 2m labels: severity: page annotations: summary: High 5xx error rate in payments API description: More than 5 errors/min for 2 minutes.9.6 Sample App (Payments API) with HPA
10/11/2025
Using Packet Capture for troubleshooting Azure Firewall flows
We are happy to announce that Microsoft just released the new Packet capture feature and it is Generally Available for Azure Firewall.In this section, we will use Azure Firewall Packet Capture to understand why an HTTP/HTTPS connection between VM-1 and VM-2 is not working properly.The availability of Azure Firewall Packet Capture is crucial for effective network and security troubleshooting.
10/11/2025
Three Pillars of Operations Readiness | Part 2
Operations Readiness stands on a foundational triad: People, Processes, and Technology.Now that we’ve covered the “why” and the “what” of Operational Readiness through its foundational pillars, the next post in this series will take you behind the scenes of how to put it all together.We’ll walk through templates and best practices — from checklists and RACIs to runbooks and handover plans — that turn readiness theory into executable action.
10/11/2025
Operations Readiness in Cloud Migrations: A Framework for Seamless Transitions | Part 1
This blog outlines a reusable, cloud-agnostic OR framework based on real-world experience, offering guidance for organizations embarking on cloud migrations of any size or complexity.Operations Readiness (OR) is the state of preparedness of people, processes, and systems to seamlessly operate and support a service, product, or system — particularly after it transitions to a production or live environment.In the context of cloud migrations, OR ensures that once applications, data, and workloads are moved to the cloud, they are not only technically deployed but are also operationally sustainable — meaning they can be supported, monitored, managed, and scaled with minimal risk or disruption.
10/11/2025
How AI is Transforming Operations Readiness in Azure | Part 3
In the cloud era, “Operations Readiness” ensures that systems, processes, and teams are fully equipped to manage live operations — from monitoring and alerting to resilience, security, and documentation.AI enables a fundamental shift in how readiness is managed — from manual validation to intelligent, data-driven assurance.Instead of relying solely on human inputs and static checklists, AI systems can analyze data, learn from patterns, and predict readiness gaps before go-live.Using Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Search, AI can now:
10/11/2025
How AI is Transforming Operations Readiness in Azure
In the cloud era, “Operations Readiness” ensures that systems, processes, and teams are fully equipped to manage live operations — from monitoring and alerting to resilience, security, and documentation.AI enables a fundamental shift in how readiness is managed — from manual validation to intelligent, data-driven assurance.Instead of relying solely on human inputs and static checklists, AI systems can analyze data, learn from patterns, and predict readiness gaps before go-live.Using Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Search, AI can now:
10/11/2025
Everything You Need to Know About LLM Evaluation Metrics
When large language models first came out, most of us were just thinking about what they could do, what problems they could solve, and how far they might go.
10/11/2025
Three Pillars of Operational Readiness | Part 2
Processes: Building Operational Muscle MemoryWell-defined and documented processes are essential for consistent and predictable service delivery.We’ll walk through templates and best practices — from checklists and RACIs to runbooks and handover plans — that turn readiness theory into executable action.
10/11/2025
Platform SSO for macOS
As organizations accelerate their journey to passwordless authentication, Microsoft’s Platform SSO for macOS offers a seamless, secure, and user-friendly experience for device and application sign-in.Built on Apple’s SSO framework and tightly integrated with Microsoft Entra ID, Platform SSO empowers users to leverage modern authentication methods Touch ID, smart cards, and passkeys across their macOS devices, enterprise apps, and browsers.In this blog, we’ll walk through the essentials of Platform SSO, supported authentication methods, configuration steps, and best practices for deployment in enterprise environments.Platform SSO is a Microsoft feature for macOS (13+) that leverages Apple’s SSO framework to enable single sign-on using Entra ID credentials.
10/11/2025
Comparing Memory Systems for LLM Agents: Vector, Graph, and Event Logs
Reliable multi-agent systems are mostly a memory design problem.Once agents call tools, collaborate, and run long workflows, you need explicit mechanisms for what gets stored, how it is retrieved, and how the system behaves when memory is wrong or missing.This article compares 6 memory system patterns commonly used in agent stacks, grouped into […]
10/11/2025
Meet Kosmos: An AI Scientist that Automates Data-Driven Discovery
Kosmos, built by Edison Scientific, is an autonomous discovery system that runs long research campaigns on a single goal.Given a dataset and an open ended natural language objective, it performs repeated cycles of data analysis, literature search, and hypothesis generation, then synthesizes the results into a fully cited scientific report.The post Meet Kosmos: An AI Scientist that Automates Data-Driven Discovery appeared first on MarkTechPost.
10/11/2025
Operational Readiness in Cloud Migrations: A Framework for Seamless Transitions
This blog outlines a reusable, cloud-agnostic OR framework based on real-world experience, offering guidance for organizations embarking on cloud migrations of any size or complexity.Operational Readiness (OR) is the state of preparedness of people, processes, and systems to seamlessly operate and support a service, product, or system — particularly after it transitions to a production or live environment.In the context of cloud migrations, OR ensures that once applications, data, and workloads are moved to the cloud, they are not only technically deployed but are also operationally sustainable — meaning they can be supported, monitored, managed, and scaled with minimal risk or disruption.
10/11/2025
A Coding Implementation to Build Neural Memory Agents with Differentiable Memory, Meta-Learning, and Experience Replay for Continual Adaptation in Dynamic Environments
In this tutorial, we explore how neural memory agents can learn continuously without forgetting past experiences.We design a memory-augmented neural network that integrates a Differentiable Neural Computer (DNC) with experience replay and meta-learning to adapt quickly to new tasks while retaining prior knowledge.By implementing this approach in PyTorch, we demonstrate how content-based memory […]
10/11/2025
Now generally available: Surveys Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot
We’re thrilled to announce that Surveys Agent - your intelligent assistant for managing surveys end-to-end - is now generally available to all commercial customers worldwide with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.Previously available through the Frontier preview program, Surveys Agent has helped early adopters streamline data collection and actionable insights for use cases like training sessions, employee engagement, and customer research. Now, it’s ready for everyone.Surveys Agent is available to business users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Ready to get started? Install Surveys Agent and pin it to your Microsoft 365 Copilot sidebar for quick access. We’re excited to see how you use it—and we’re listening.
10/11/2025
AI Interview Series #1: Explain Some LLM Text Generation Strategies Used in LLMs
Every time you prompt an LLM, it doesn’t generate a complete answer all at once — it builds the response one word (or token) at a time.At each step, the model predicts the probability of what the next token could be based on everything written so far.The post AI Interview Series #1: Explain Some LLM Text Generation Strategies Used in LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/11/2025
StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-EditX: A New Open-Source 3B LLM-Grade Audio Editing Model Excelling at Expressive and Iterative Audio Editing
How can speech editing become as direct and controllable as simply rewriting a line of text?StepFun AI has open sourced Step-Audio-EditX, a 3B parameter LLM based audio model that turns expressive speech editing into a token level text like operation, instead of a waveform level signal processing task.The post StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-EditX: A New Open-Source 3B LLM-Grade Audio Editing Model Excelling at Expressive and Iterative Audio Editing appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/11/2025
Deploying Dev Box Catalogs and Synchronizing with GitHub using Terraform
Now, we’ll take the next step: **deploying Dev Box catalogs and synchronizing them with a GitHub repository**.Synchronizing these catalogs with GitHub for version control.Deploy the Dev Box Catalog and Key Vault to the 'West Europe' location.
09/11/2025
How to Build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant that Understands, Reasons, Plans, and Responds through Autonomous Multi-Step Intelligence
In this tutorial, we explore how to build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant capable of understanding, reasoning, and responding through natural speech in real time.We begin by setting up a self-contained voice intelligence pipeline that integrates speech recognition, intent detection, multi-step reasoning, and text-to-speech synthesis.The post How to Build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant that Understands, Reasons, Plans, and Responds through Autonomous Multi-Step Intelligence appeared first on MarkTechPost.
09/11/2025
The Future of AI: The Model is Key, but the App is the Doorway
August 2025 brought the exciting release of the GPT-5 family of models.The Azure AI team rolled out GPT-5 concurrently, immediately integrating it into Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.Here are some best practices for developers to adapt their applications and workflows to a new model family like GPT-5:
08/11/2025
Nested Learning: A New Machine Learning Approach for Continual Learning that Views Models as Nested Optimization Problems to Enhance Long Context Processing
How can we build AI systems that keep learning new information over time without forgetting what they learned before or retraining from scratch?Google Researchers has introduced Nested Learning, a machine learning approach that treats a model as a collection of smaller nested optimization problems, instead of a single network trained by one outer loop.The post Nested Learning: A New Machine Learning Approach for Continual Learning that Views Models as Nested Optimization Problems to Enhance Long Context Processing appeared first on MarkTechPost.
08/11/2025
Extending Layer-2 (VXLAN) Networks Over Layer-3 IP network
Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that encapsulates Layer-2 Ethernet frames inside Layer-3 UDP/IP packets.In essence, VXLAN creates a logical Layer-2 overlay network on top of an IP network, allowing Ethernet segments (VLANs) or underlay IP packet to be stretched across routed infrastructures.Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a standard protocol (IETF RFC 7348) that can encapsulate Layer-2 Ethernet frames into Layer-3 UDP/IP packets.
08/11/2025
Simplifying Microservice Reliability with Dapr
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08/11/2025
Prior Labs Releases TabPFN-2.5: The Latest Version of TabPFN that Unlocks Scale and Speed for Tabular Foundation Models
Tabular data is still where many important models run in production.Finance, healthcare, energy and industry teams work with tables of rows and columns, not images or long text.Prior Labs now extends this space with TabPFN-2.5, a new tabular foundation model that scales in context learning to 50,000 samples and 2,000 features while keeping […]
08/11/2025
Anthropic Turns MCP Agents Into Code First Systems With ‘Code Execution With MCP’ Approach
Agents that use the Model Context Protocol MCP have a scaling problem.Every tool definition and every intermediate result is pushed through the context window, which means large workflows burn tokens and hit latency and cost limits fast.Anthropic’s new ‘code execution with MCP’ pattern restructures this pipeline by turning MCP tools into code level […]
08/11/2025
How to Build an Advanced Multi-Page Reflex Web Application with Real-Time Database, Dynamic State Management, and Reactive UI
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Reflex web application entirely in Python that runs seamlessly inside Colab.We design the app to demonstrate how Reflex enables full-stack development with no JavaScript, just reactive Python code.We create a complete notes-management dashboard featuring two pages, real-time database interactions, filtering, sorting, analytics, and user personalization.
08/11/2025
Azure VNet Flow Logs with Terraform: The Complete Migration and Traffic Analytics Guide
Migrating from NSG Flow Logs to VNet Flow Logs in Azure: Implementation with TerraformMicrosoft is retiring Network Security Group (NSG) flow logs and recommends migrating to Virtual Network (VNet) flow logs.After June 30, 2025, new NSG flow logs cannot be created, and all NSG flow logs will be retired by September 30, 2027.
08/11/2025
Cut the Noise & Cost with Container Network Metrics Filtering in ACNS for AKS
We’re excited to introduce Container Network Metrics Filtering in Azure Container Networking Services (ACNS) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now in Public Preview!This capability transforms how you manage network observability in Kubernetes clusters by giving you control over what metrics matter most.In today’s large-scale, microservices-driven environments, teams often face metrics bloat, Bollecting far more data than they need.
08/11/2025
Layer 7 Network Policies for AKS: Now Generally Available for Production Security and Observability!
We are thrilled to announce that Layer 7 (L7) Network Policies for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), powered by Cilium and Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS), has reached General Availability (GA)!The journey from public preview to GA signifies a critical step: L7 Network Policies are now fully supported, highly optimized, and ready for your most demanding, mission-critical production workloads.We encourage you to enable L7 Network Policies on your AKS clusters and level up your network security controls for containerized workloads.
08/11/2025
Introducing eBPF Host Routing: High performance AI networking with Azure CNI powered by Cilium
Kubernetes networking relies on the Container Network Interface (CNI) for pod connectivity and routing.Azure CNI powered by Cilium natively integrates Azure Kubernetes service (AKS) data plane with Azure CNI networking modes for superior performance, hardware offload support, and enterprise-grade reliability.In this blog, we highlight the performance benefits of eBPF host routing, explain how to enable it in an AKS cluster, and provide a deep dive into its implementation on Azure.
08/11/2025
Introducing Local Identity with Azure Key Vault in Build 2510
We’re excited to announce public preview of local identity with Azure Key Vault that allows you to deploy an azure local cluster which is not dependent on active directory.With Local Identity and Azure Key Vault integration, you can:Join the private preview for Management Toolkit and Internal DNS.
07/11/2025
Compliance Meets AI: Wrapping Up an Incredible Series and Looking Ahead
Over the past six sessions, the Compliance Meets AI webinar series has taken us on a journey through the evolving landscape of compliance, security, and generative AI.Today’s final session, Deep Dive: Insider Risk for Copilot, was a powerful close to the series.We’re thrilled to announce that Compliance Meets AI will return in 2026 with new topics, deeper demos, and fresh insights into governance for emerging technologies.
07/11/2025
Google AI Releases ADK Go: A New Open-Source Toolkit Designed to Empower Go Developers to Build Powerful AI Agents
How do you build reliable AI agents that plug into your existing Go services without bolting on a separate language stack?Google has just released Agent Development Kit for Go.Go developers can now build AI agents with the same framework that already supports Python and Java, while keeping everything inside a familiar Go toolchain […]
07/11/2025
Empowering Multi-Agent Solutions with Microsoft Agent Framework - Code Migration and DevUI
The Agent Framework unifies these two approaches into a single SDK + runtime for building agents and multi-agent workflows for both Python and .NET.When paired with Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, you get a managed runtime to host agents, threads, tools, and connected multi‑agent workflows.One of the developer experience (DX) highlights of the Agent Framework is the DevUI component, an interactive UI for developing, testing, and debugging agents and workflows.
07/11/2025
Build Your Microsoft Ignite Schedule: Top Sessions for IT Pros
Welcome back to our Azure Tech Community Microsoft Ignite 2025 series!That’s why we’ve curated a list of sessions tailored specifically for IT Pros to help you make the most of your time, strengthen your technical strategy, and get inspired for the year ahead.Use the Ignite session scheduler feature in the session catalog to personalize your agenda, save your favorites, and organize your time at Ignite.
07/11/2025
Build Your Microsoft Ignite Schedule: Top Sessions for IT Pros
Welcome back to our Azure Tech Community Microsoft Ignite 2025 series!That’s why we’ve curated a list of sessions tailored specifically for IT Pros to help you make the most of your time, strengthen your technical strategy, and get inspired for the year ahead. End-to-end security for your AI platforms, apps, and agents (BRK267)Learn how to protect your organization’s AI assets and infrastructure using Microsoft’s integrated cloud security and compliance tools.
07/11/2025
General Availability Announcement: Regex Support in SQL Server 2025 & Azure SQL
We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of native Regex support in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL — a long-awaited capability that brings powerful pattern matching directly into T-SQL.With Regex now natively supported in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL, this capability is built directly into T-SQL — no external languages or workarounds required.Meet the new Regex functions in T-SQL
07/11/2025
Exciting things on the horizon for PostgreSQL fans @ Ignite 2025
We have a packed lineup, including sessions exploring cutting-edge features and exclusive giveaways at the PostgreSQL on Azure booth. Led by Azure product leaders and executives from organizations driving innovation backed by PostgreSQL, these breakout sessions will dive into the coolest new capabilities and real-world use cases.Each breakout session is 45 minutes with live demos and Q&A, so you’ll get plenty of detail and interaction with Postgres experts.
07/11/2025
Why Spatial Supersensing is Emerging as the Core Capability for Multimodal AI Systems?
Even strong ‘long-context’ AI models fail badly when they must track objects and counts over long, messy video streams, so the next competitive edge will come from models that predict what comes next and selectively remember only surprising, important events, not from just buying more compute and bigger context windows.A team of researchers from […]The post Why Spatial Supersensing is Emerging as the Core Capability for Multimodal AI Systems? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/11/2025
Windows Autopatch for the US government: How to get started
This cloud-based service that has a proven record with enterprises has now been approved to be added to the Azure FedRAMP High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO).Windows Autopatch is now available to US government organizations as part of Microsoft 365 Government.If you’re using Microsoft Intune, the easiest way to automate your update process is to create one or more Windows Autopatch groups:
07/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 7, 2025
Learn about 151 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs.Asper: Asper is an AI-native platform for the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry.Asper integrates demand forecasting with revenue growth m, improves forecast accuracy, automates processes, and optimizes pricing and promotions for revenue and profit growth.
07/11/2025
How Copilot Technologies Are a Force-Multiplier for Global Opportunities or for Inclusive Growth
It’s a lifeline for mission-driven organizations navigating rising demand with limited resources.In today’s nonprofit landscape, the question is no longer if we use AI, but how we use it—with care, intention, and humanity.Microsoft Copilot is helping nonprofits do just that:It’s the power to reclaim time, restore dignity, and respond with compassion.And it’s only the beginning.You can read their full story on Microsoft for Nonprofits LinkedIn and discover how AI, when guided by purpose, can amplify the human impact: (28) How Copilot Technologies Are a Force-Multiplier for Global Opportunities or for Inclusive Growth |
07/11/2025
The 7 Statistical Concepts You Need to Succeed as a Machine Learning Engineer
When we ask ourselves the question, " what is inside machine learning systems? ", many of us picture frameworks and models that make predictions or perform tasks.
07/11/2025
Comparing the Top 6 Inference Runtimes for LLM Serving in 2025
Large language models are now limited less by training and more by how fast and cheaply we can serve tokens under real traffic.That comes down to three implementation details: how the runtime batches requests, how it overlaps prefill and decode, and how it stores and reuses the KV cache.The post Comparing the Top 6 Inference Runtimes for LLM Serving in 2025 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/11/2025
Build a Multi-Agent System for Integrated Transcriptomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Data Interpretation with Pathway Reasoning
In this tutorial, we build an advanced multi-agent pipeline that interprets integrated omics data, including transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, to uncover key biological insights.We begin by generating coherent synthetic datasets that mimic realistic biological trends and then move step by step through agents designed for statistical analysis, network inference, pathway enrichment, and drug repurposing.The post Build a Multi-Agent System for Integrated Transcriptomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Data Interpretation with Pathway Reasoning appeared first on MarkTechPost.
07/11/2025
Monitoring Generative AI Applications with Azure AI Foundry
By combining Azure Monitor’s baseline alerting framework with AI Foundry’s built-in metrics and telemetry, teams can achieve proactive monitoring aligned with Microsoft’s Azure Baseline Monitoring Alerts.🎯 Generative AI monitoring = traditional metrics + new dimensions of intelligence, quality, and safety.Azure AI Foundry gives you a complete monitoring framework for your AI workloads — combining traditional performance metrics with AI-specific signals like token usage, output quality, and safety.
07/11/2025
Troubleshooting Azure Virtual Desktop Sign-In Failures After Tenant Migration
Migrating an Azure subscription between tenants can sometimes surface unexpected authentication issues, especially for environments like Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) that depend deeply on Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) for identity and access control.This post walks through a real-world scenario where users were suddenly locked out of AVD sessions after a tenant migration, the investigation that followed, and the steps taken to restore access.Shortly after an Azure subscription was migrated from Tenant A to Tenant B, several users reported being unable to connect to their virtual desktops.The error message displayed:
07/11/2025
Manage Azure Firewall Rules,NSG rules, using Terraform resource blocks and csv files
Why Use Terraform and CSV for Azure Rule Management?Enhance visibility: Use Visual Studio Code extensions like Edit CSV or Rainbow CSV for easy rule inspection and editing.Define your Azure Firewall, NSG, and route table rules in CSV files.
07/11/2025
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2 Thinking: An Impressive Thinking Model that can Execute up to 200–300 Sequential Tool Calls without Human Interference
How do we design AI systems that can plan, reason, and act over long sequences of decisions without constant human guidance?Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open source thinking agent model that exposes the full reasoning stream of the Kimi K2 Mixture of Experts architecture.It targets workloads that need deep reasoning, […]
07/11/2025
Where Microsoft’s community comes alive: the Inspire Stage at ESPC25
At ESPC25 (December 1–4 in Dublin) the Inspire Stage returns as a cornerstone of the conference experience—offering a space where personal development, professional growth, and community connection converge.At ESPC24 in Stockholm, the Inspire Stage was a hub for 30-minute lightning talks focused on professional development and wellness.The Inspire Stage is more than a schedule of talks—it’s a reflection of the Microsoft community’s strength and generosity. It’s where MVPs, first-time attendees, and industry leaders come together to listen, learn, support one another, and grow collectively. It’s where hallway conversations turn into career breakthroughs, and where you realize you’re part of something bigger.
07/11/2025
Build an Autonomous Wet-Lab Protocol Planner and Validator Using Salesforce CodeGen for Agentic Experiment Design and Safety Optimization
In this tutorial, we build a Wet-Lab Protocol Planner & Validator that acts as an intelligent agent for experimental design and execution.We design the system using Python and integrate Salesforce’s CodeGen-350M-mono model for natural language reasoning.We structure the pipeline into modular components: ProtocolParser for extracting structured data, such as steps, durations, and temperatures, […]
07/11/2025
Title Plan Update – November 7, 2025
November 7, 2025 Title Plan Now Available (a little early)Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version.📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan.
06/11/2025
Temporary disruption for some AI course labs during Ignite
We expect temporary disruption to several AI course labs due to product changes announced at Microsoft’s Ignite event.During this period, we anticipate that changes to the product may cause labs to be out of alignment.We expect all labs to be aligned by November 28, 2025.
06/11/2025
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (October 2025)
Summary: Microsoft has deployed the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 infrastructure on Azure, offering unprecedented AI compute density in a single rack with 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs.Summary: The article discusses deploying a preconfigured Squid proxy solution to securely enable Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) and Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) connectivity in hybrid cloud environments.Summary: The article introduces the Azure NetApp Files Object REST API, a new solution enabling direct, secure, S3-compatible access to enterprise data for Azure analytics and AI services.
06/11/2025
Google AI Introduces DS STAR: A Multi Agent Data Science System That Plans, Codes And Verifies End To End Analytics
How do you turn a vague business style question over messy folders of CSV, JSON and text into reliable Python code without a human analyst in the loop?Google researchers introduce DS STAR (Data Science Agent via Iterative Planning and Verification), a multi agent framework that turns open ended data science questions into executable Python […]The post Google AI Introduces DS STAR: A Multi Agent Data Science System That Plans, Codes And Verifies End To End Analytics appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/11/2025
You may be right after all! Disputing Submission Responses in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
a feature that elevates the transparency and responsiveness of threat management: the ability to dispute a submission response directly within Microsoft Defender for Office 365. With the new dispute submission response feature, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 bridges a critical gap in the incident response workflow.Come ready with your questions (or pre-submit here) for the expert Security MVPs on camera, or the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 product team in the chat!
06/11/2025
Upcoming webinars for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers
Have you joined our Customer Hub webinar sessions? In today's hybrid work environment, modern communication and solutions are essential.Leveraging AI and cutting-edge technology, our goal is to help you explore what you can achieve with Microsoft solutions—empowering smarter collaboration, streamlined workflows, and innovative ways to work.Join us for one or more of the upcoming sessions, including the launch of several new Copilot webinar series. We also have all past session recordings so you can watch any that you miss. Sign up today by clicking on any of the session titles below.
06/11/2025
Boosting Hybrid Cloud Data Efficiency for EDA: The Power of Azure NetApp Files cache volumes
As designs push the boundaries of PPA (Power, Performance, and reduced Area) to meet escalating market demands, the volume of associated design data has surged exponentially with a single System-on-Chip (SoC) project generating multiple petabytes of data during its development lifecycle, making data mobility and accessibility critical bottlenecks. To overcome these challenges, Azure NetApp Files (ANF) cache volumes are purpose-built to optimize data movement and minimize latency, delivering high-speed access to massive design datasets across distributed environments.By mitigating data gravity, Azure NetApp Files cache volumes empower chip designers to leverage cloud-scale compute resources on demand and at scale, thus accelerating innovation without being constrained by physical infrastructure.Azure NetApp Files cache volumes, built on proven NetApp FlexCache® technology, accelerate data access across distributed environments and from on-premises to Azure.
06/11/2025
Migrate & Modernize Your VMware Platform Using Azure VMware Solution Gen 2
This video series by Microsoft Global Blackbelts, Carlos Villuendas (CarlosV) and Trevor Davis (tredavis), guides users from configuring prerequisites to deploying, migrating on-premises VMware workloads to Azure VMware Solution, then integrating VMware workloads with Azure Native services for enhanced value.These are the first two videos, much more to come, please check back often. For requests, leave comments in the notes.
06/11/2025
Fast-Start Checklist for Microsoft Defender CSPM: From Enablement to Best Practices
When it comes to securing your multicloud environment, Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management offers a powerful suite of agentless capabilities.This blog post walks through a fast-start checklist to help you enable and operationalize DCSPM effectively, covering Policy Configuration, RBAC, enablement, and snapshot expectations. In this article, we’ll go step-by-step through the key actions needed to enable Microsoft Defender CSPM and start gaining visibility, context, and protection across your multicloud workloads:When the Defender CSPM plan is enabled at subscription level, you unlock a set of advanced posture capabilities that do not require agents.
06/11/2025
Accelerating Copilot-ready governance with a transactable offer
In this article, I connected with Michal Pisarek from Orchestry to explore their story, their path as a Microsoft partner, and how they’re helping organizations get Copilot-ready with smarter governance and streamlined adoption.About Michal [MP]: Michal Pisarek is CEO and Janitor of Orchestry, a Microsoft 365 governance platform that helps enterprises tighten permissions, streamline lifecycle management, and stay Copilot-ready.He speaks and writes on Microsoft 365 governance, permissions, and adoption.
06/11/2025
Announcing the Release of SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 5
Hi all – this week we released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 5! It’s a smaller preview with a set of fixes for GitHub Copilot, you can view the list in the release notes. For those of you working with GitHub Copilot in SSMS, we recommend updating to this preview. If you’re not using GitHub Copilot in SSMS and you haven’t seen how it easy it makes writing and editing T-SQL, please give it a try!and it’s not over!We do not plan to have multiple major releases every year. Moving to Visual Studio 2022, and the Visual Studio 2026 (Preview) and SQL Server 2025 (Preview) announcements were factors that contributed to this year’s SSMS release schedule. We do not expect 2026 to have the same release cadence, and we’ll be working to find the right balance of delivering updates and new features without overwhelming organizations that prefer to stay on the latest build.
06/11/2025
People learn best when they feel welcome: The Story of Microsoft Security User Group Norway
Introduction of Microsoft Security User GroupThe first Microsoft Security User Group Norway meetup launched in Oslo with over 120 signups.Call for speakers: Microsoft Security User Group 2025: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com
06/11/2025
Billing Announcement: Azure Data Explorer Storage Adjustment (November 2025)
It was recently discovered that some Azure Data Explorer clusters were undercharging for the amount of data being stored.This was corrected on November 3rd which may result in an increase in the Azure Data Explorer cluster storage cost for some customers.Below are the two meters that are affected by this change.
06/11/2025
Sleigh the season: Holiday hacks with Microsoft Copilot
Create a guest itineraryIt’s never too early to think about gifts – especially with Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching.With Microsoft Copilot, you can scope out deals and begin finding the perfect items for your loved ones.
06/11/2025
Announcing General Availability of Software Defined Networking (SDN) on Azure Local
Starting in Azure Local version 2510, we’re excited to announce the General Availability of Software Defined Networking (SDN) on Azure Local enabled by Azure Arc.This release introduces cloud-native networking capabilities for access control at the network layer, utilizing Network Security Groups (NSGs) on Azure Local.Key highlights in this release are:1- Centralized network management: Manage Logical networks, network interfaces, and NSGs through the Azure control plane – whether your preference is the Azure Portal, Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI), or Azure Resource Manager templates.2- Fine-grained traffic control: Safeguard your edge workloads with policy-driven access controls by applying inbound and outbound allow/deny rules on NSGs, just as you would in Azure.3- Seamless hybrid consistency: Reduce operational friction and accelerate your IT staff’s ramp-up on advanced networking skills by using the same familiar tools and constructs across both Azure public cloud and Azure Local.Software Defined Networking (SDN) forms the backbone of delivering Azure-style networking on-premises.
06/11/2025
Database Innovations: Your Guide to Microsoft Ignite 2025
In two weeks, we will share the latest news and features for SQL, NoSQL, and open-source databases on Azure, Fabric, and SQL Server at Microsoft Ignite. Held November 18 – 21 in San Francisco and online, Ignite is Microsoft’s largest event of the year, and we look forward to sharing product innovations, hearing best practices and insights from customers, and building new connections. Read on for all the Databases breakout sessions, demos, and labs taking place at Microsoft Ignite – and don’t forget to add them to your schedule. All times listed are in PST (Pacific Standard Time).Join the product teams from Azure SQL, SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Fabric Databases as they show off the innovative new features that will be announced at Microsoft Ignite. In-person attendees can dive deep into Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL in technical workshops that run throughout Microsoft Ignite. Space is limited – so make sure you register in advance.
06/11/2025
Introducing Dell PowerScale for Azure: Now in Public Preview
We’re excited to announce the public preview of Dell PowerScale for Microsoft Azure – a fully managed, enterprise-grade file storage solution natively integrated into Azure.Supporting up to 8.4PB in a single namespace, Dell PowerScale offers the scalability needed for demanding modern workloads.This natively integrated solution uses purpose-built virtual machine infrastructure provisioned by Microsoft in the standard Azure hyper scaler environment.
06/11/2025
Making Teams Updates Seamless: Smarter Delivery with Peer-to-Peer download and Scattered Rollouts
The latest Teams updater makes this process more efficient than ever by introducing two innovative strategies: Delivery Optimization and Scattered Update.Delivery Optimization is a built-in Windows feature designed to make updates more efficient by reducing redundant downloads.To get the most out of Delivery Optimization, consider configuring settings for your tenant to allow peer-to-peer sharing and connected cache.
06/11/2025
Operationalizing the Sentinel data lake: A Practitioner’s Guide
This article is part of The Sentinel data lake Practitioner Series. Getting Started Notebook: Building Familiarity with the Data Lake FrameworkSecurity is a core focus at Ignite this year, with the Security Forum on November 17th, deep dive technical sessions, theater talks, and hands-on labs designed for security leaders and practitioners
06/11/2025
AI-Powered Db2 LUW to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Schema Converter
This blog introduces a custom-built tool designed to migrate database objects from IBM Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows) to Azure Database for PostgreSQL.The Db2 LUW to Azure PostgreSQL Database Converter is designed to facilitate the migration of IBM Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows) databases to Azure database for PostgreSQL.Created by the Microsoft Azure SQL CSE/Ninja Team, this tool provides an interface intended to support migration workflows.
06/11/2025
Free AI and Data Courses with 365 Data Science—100% Unlimited Access until Nov 21
From November 6 to November 21, 2025 (starting at 8:00 a.
06/11/2025
Putting People First: Welcoming Justin Spelhaug as President of Microsoft Elevate
Today, we’re honored to introduce someone who has spent his career standing alongside them: Justin Spelhaug, the new President of Microsoft Elevate.As Justin shared, “The AI era must put people first—not as a slogan, but as a plan.” Together, we’re building a future where AI strengthens institutions, expands opportunity, and uplifts those who serve others.
06/11/2025
Building Adaptive Multilingual Apps Using TypeScript and Azure AI Translator API
Azure AI Translator adds multilingual intelligence to applications via a REST API.The new 2025-05-01-preview version introduces Large Language Model (LLM) translation options alongside traditional Neural Machine Translation (NMT).For TypeScript developers, this unlocks richer style control (tone, gender), adaptive customization, and hybrid translation flows that balance speed, cost, and nuance.
06/11/2025
Unlock Structured OCR in TypeScript with Mistral Document AI on AI Foundry
Mistral Document AI (available as a serverless model in Azure AI Foundry) brings multimodal, layout‑aware document understanding directly into a developer workflow without provisioning GPUs.Mistral Document AI combines vision + language understanding to interpret complex page layouts.The model supports 25+ languages and handles PDFs and images (including scanned, mixed‑content pages) with high accuracy.
06/11/2025
Running Phi-4 Locally with Microsoft Foundry Local: A Step-by-Step Guide
In our previous post, we explored how Phi-4 represents a new frontier in AI efficiency that delivers performance comparable to models 5x its size while being small enough to run on your laptop.Today, we're taking the next step: getting Phi-4 up and running locally on your machine using Microsoft Foundry Local.Microsoft Foundry provides a simple API that lets you integrate Phi-4 into Python applications and connect it to real-time data sources.
06/11/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: November 6, 2025
Learn about 139 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs.In this workshop, BearingPoint will help you lay the foundation for a successful ERP initiative with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.Delivered by certified experts, this structured pilot allows users to experience Microsoft Places’ intelligent coordination, space optimization, and hybrid work capabilities, which are fully integrated with Microsoft Teams Premium.
06/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #4: Fix Connection Error: No pg_hba.conf Entry, SSL off
The issue occurred when the customer attempted to connect to Azure PostgreSQL using psql and received this error:psql: error: could not connect to server: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "", user "ange", database "postgres", SSL offFailing to configure SSL and validate network settings can lead to:
06/11/2025
Essential Chunking Techniques for Building Better LLM Applications
Every large language model (LLM) application that retrieves information faces a simple problem: how do you break down a 50-page document into pieces that a model can actually use? So when you’re building a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) app, before your vector database retrieves anything and your LLM generates responses, your documents need to be split into chunks.
06/11/2025
CMU Researchers Introduce PPP and UserVille To Train Proactive And Personalized LLM Agents
Most LLM agents are tuned to maximize task success.They resolve GitHub issues or answer deep research queries, but they do not reason carefully about when to ask the user questions or how to respect different interaction preferences.The post CMU Researchers Introduce PPP and UserVille To Train Proactive And Personalized LLM Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
06/11/2025
Newsletter - Microsoft Global Community Initiative - November 2025
Microsoft Global Community Initiative Newsletter Microsoft Ignite, Nov 17-21 in San FranciscoDon’t miss out on the next General Session taking place on November 18th.
06/11/2025
Beyond Basics: Tracking Kafka Lag in Azure Event Hubs
Mastering Kafka Consumer Lag Monitoring in Azure Event HubsWhile Apache Kafka provides persistent offset storage and straightforward lag monitoring, Azure Event Hubs (Kafka-enabled) introduces unique challenges—especially for inactive consumer groups.This article presents practical strategies, code samples, troubleshooting tips, and best practices for tracking lag in both scenarios.
06/11/2025
Generalist AI Introduces GEN-θ: A New Class of Embodied Foundation Models Built for Multimodal Training Directly on High-Fidelity Raw Physical Interaction
How do you build a single model that can learn physical skills from chaotic real world robot data without relying on simulation?Generalist AI has unveiled GEN-θ, a family of embodied foundation models trained directly on high fidelity raw physical interaction data instead of internet video or simulation.The system is built to establish scaling […]
06/11/2025
Azure AI Foundry vs. Azure Databricks – A Unified Approach to Enterprise Intelligence
Key Insights into Azure AI Foundry and Azure Databricks Complementary Powerhouses: Azure AI Foundry is purpose-built for generative AI application and agent development, focusing on model orchestration and rapid prototyping, while Azure Databricks excels in large-scale data engineering, analytics, and traditional machine learning, forming the data intelligence backbone. Seamless Integration for End-to-End AI: A critica...
05/11/2025
Calling API Management using Entra ID authentication and testing with PowerShell
Integrating Entra ID or other compatible identity providers with Azure API Management is both easy and a great way to enhance security for your APIs. However, when you enforce authentication with the Validate JWT policy in API Management, you now have the extra step of obtaining a JWT token from your identity provider and supplying it to API Management. If you are writing code, this is fairly straight forward to achieve with the Azure Identity libraries, and there are great API testing ...
05/11/2025
🚀 Compliance Meets AI: Communication Compliance for Copilot – What You Missed!
Last Friday’s session was a game-changer for anyone looking to keep AI use safe, ethical, and compliant. We didn’t just talk theory—we showed real-world strategies for monitoring Copilot interactions and protecting sensitive data with Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance. Missed the session? No worries we have you covered. You can watch it here
05/11/2025
What's new in Viva Insights
Migration of manager insights to the Viva Insights web app We recently unified all manager insights into a single destination: the Viva Insights web app.We’ve added enhanced data quality visibility for admins and analysts in the Viva Insights web app, which enables them to better understand and act on the quality of organizational data used in Viva Insights and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
05/11/2025
Access bug fixes version 2510 (Build 19328.20158)
Undo/Redo don’t work for Bring To Front and Send To Back commands.In Form/Report Design view, after executing a Bring To Front or Send To Back command to re-order controls, Undo will now restore the previous state.Syntax highlighting makes keywords hard to read with dark Office themes in the Monaco SQL editor.
05/11/2025
Announcing the Annual Release Cadence for Microsoft Configuration Manager
Starting with version 2609, Microsoft Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence. This change is a formalization of the direction we’ve communicated at events and in customer conversations. Microsoft Intune is the future of device management, and all new innovations will occur there. Configuration Manager will continue to serve your on-premises devices, with a renewed focus on security, stability, and long-term support. Why Move to an Annu...
05/11/2025
A Guide to Adaptive Cloud at Microsoft Ignite 2025
This year’s event is all about driving impact in the era of AI.Join Microsoft leaders, including Judson Althoff, Scott Guthrie, Jeremy Winter, and Asha Sharma as they share breakthrough announcements in Cloud and AI platforms, AI business solutions, Security, and emerging technologies.Learn how intelligent infrastructure, agentic operations, and AI-driven tools are transforming cloud reliability, security, and agility for every workload.
05/11/2025
How to Build a Model-Native Agent That Learns Internal Planning, Memory, and Multi-Tool Reasoning Through End-to-End Reinforcement Learning
In this tutorial, we explore how an agent can internalize planning, memory, and tool use within a single neural model rather than relying on external orchestration.We design a compact, model-native agent that learns to perform arithmetic reasoning tasks through reinforcement learning.By combining a stage-aware actor-critic network with a curriculum of increasingly complex environments, […]
05/11/2025
OpenAI Introduces IndQA: A Culture Aware Benchmark For Indian Languages
How can we reliably test whether large language models actually understand Indian languages and culture in real world contexts? OpenAI has released IndQA, a benchmark that evaluates how well AI models understand and reason about questions that matter in Indian languages across cultural domains. Why IndQA? OpenAI states that about 80 percent of people worldwide […] The post
05/11/2025
Automating IOC hunts in Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Security operations are undergoing significant transformation driven by the introduction of AI and a rapidly evolving threat landscape. With Microsoft Sentinel data lake now generally available, organizations can centralize all their security data in a purpose-built security data lake. This helps optimize costs, simplify ...
05/11/2025
Unlocking Developer Innovation with Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Microsoft Sentinel is evolving rapidly, transforming to be both an industry-leading SIEM and an AI-ready platform that empowers agentic defense across the security ecosystem.In our recent webinar: Introduction to Sentinel data lake for Developers, we explored how developers can leverage Sentinel’s unified data lake, extensible architecture, and integrated tools to build innovative security solutions.This post summarizes the key takeaways and actionable insights for developers looking to harness the full power of Sentinel.
05/11/2025
Google AI Introduces Consistency Training for Safer Language Models Under Sycophantic and Jailbreak Style Prompts
How can consistency training help language models resist sycophantic prompts and jailbreak style attacks while keeping their capabilities intact? Large language models often answer safely on a plain prompt, then change behavior when the same task is wrapped with flattery or role play. DeepMind researchers propose consistent training in a simple training lens for this […] The post
05/11/2025
Public Preview: Custom WAF Block Status & Body for Azure Application Gateway
Introduction Azure Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) now supports custom HTTP status codes and custom response bodies for blocked requests. This Public Preview feature gives you more control over user experience and client-side handling, aligning with capabilities already available on Azure Front Door WAF. Why this matters Previously, WAF re...
05/11/2025
Announcing General Availability of Larger Container Sizes on Azure Container Instances
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of larger container sizes on Azure Container Instances (ACI).Customers can now deploy workloads with higher vCPU and memory for standard containers, confidential containers, containers with virtual networks, and containers utilizing virtual nodes to connect to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).After improving this feature based on customer feedback, ACI now supports vCPU counts greater than 4 and memory capacities of 16 GB, with a maximum of 31 vCPU and 240 GB for standard containers and a maximum of 31 vCPU and 180 GB for confidential containers.
05/11/2025
Mastering Copilot Content Governance with SharePoint Advance Management - Session 4
In our final session covering Mastering Copilot Governance webinar, we are joining by Senior Engineer, Georges Wikam and we discuss how Microsoft 365 Copilot is only as good as the data it can access.If your SharePoint environment is cluttered with stale content or overshared files, Copilot’s responses—and your security posture—will suffer.That’s where SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) comes in.
05/11/2025
Empower Smarter AI Agent Investments
This curated series of modules is designed to equip technical and business decision-makers, including IT, developers, engineers, AI engineers, administrators, solution architects, business analysts, and technology managers, with the practical knowledge and guidance needed to make cost-conscious decisions at every stage of the AI agent journey. From identifying high-impact use cases and understanding cost drivers, to forecating ROI, adopting best practices, designing scalable and effect...
05/11/2025
How to Diagnose Why Your Language Model Fails
Language models , as incredibly useful as they are, are not perfect, and they may fail or exhibit undesired performance due to a variety of factors, such as data quality, tokenization constraints, or difficulties in correctly interpreting user prompts.
05/11/2025
Deploying Third-Party Firewalls in Azure Landing Zones: Design, Configuration, and Best Practices
As enterprises adopt Microsoft Azure for large-scale workloads, securing network traffic becomes a critical part of the platform foundation. Azure’s Well-Architected Framework provides the blueprint for enterprise-scale Landing Zone design and deployments, and while
05/11/2025
Performance and Scalability of Azure HBv5-series Virtual Machines
Azure HBv5-series virtual machines (VMs) for CPU-based high performance computing (HPC) are now Generally Available. This blog provides in-depth information about the technical underpinnings, performance, cost, and management implications of these HPC-optimized VMs. Azur HBv5 VM bring leadership levels of performance, cost optimization, and server (VM) consolidation for a variety of workloads driven by memory performance, such as computational fluid dynamics, weather simulation, geosci...
05/11/2025
Azure Container Registry Repository Permissions with Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
General Availability announcementToday marks the general availability of Azure Container Registry (ACR) repository permissions with Microsoft Entra attribute-based access control (ABAC).ABAC augments the familiar Azure RBAC model with namespace and repository-level conditions so platform teams can express least-privilege access at the granularity of specific repositories or entire logical namespaces.
05/11/2025
Profiles in Partnership Ep 23 | Partnering for Success: Building Trust and Specialization with Joseph Khalaf
For organizations operating within the Microsoft partner ecosystem, understanding the dynamics of strategic partnerships is more important than ever.In this episode of IAMCP Profiles in Partnership “Partnering for Success: Building Trust and Specialization” with Joseph Khalaf, hosts Anthony Carrano and Rudy Rodriguez have a candid and insightful conversation about what it really takes to build lasting success in the Microsoft Partner ecosystem. Joseph Khalaf's journey from a 17-year Microsoft engineer to the founder of ampiO Solutions illustrates the importance of making the leap from a technical expert to a relationship builder.
05/11/2025
How Can We Build Scalable and Reproducible Machine Learning Experiment Pipelines Using Meta Research Hydra?
In this tutorial, we explore Hydra, an advanced configuration management framework originally developed and open-sourced by Meta Research.We begin by defining structured configurations using Python dataclasses, which allows us to manage experiment parameters in a clean, modular, and reproducible manner.The post How Can We Build Scalable and Reproducible Machine Learning Experiment Pipelines Using Meta Research Hydra? appeared first on MarkTechPost.
05/11/2025
Accelerating the multi-cloud advantage: Storage migration paths into Azure storage
Broaden your customer base and enhance your app’s exposure by bringing your AWS-based solution to Azure and listing it on Microsoft Marketplace.This guide will walk you through how Azure storage services compare to those on AWS—spotlighting important differences in architecture, scalability, and feature sets—so you can make confident choices when replicating your app’s storage layer to Azure.When replicating your app from AWS to Azure, start by mapping your existing storage services to the closest Azure equivalents.
04/11/2025
Ignite Connections: Unleashing Community & Networking at Microsoft Ignite 2025
We’re excited to showcase the community sessions from all three of our key solution areas: AI Business Solutions, Cloud & AI Platforms, and Security.Experience Community at Microsoft IgniteRegister now, share this with your network, and start planning your attendee experience today.
04/11/2025
When Your CRM Plays Hide-and-Seek: The Mystery of Missing Columns in Dynamics 365
What Happened? Personal views across multiple organizations started showing empty columns, even though the data was there. For businesses that rely on these views for daily decisions, this isn’t a normal glitch—the end users can easily assume that “no data” in the view means no data in the record and make decisions based on an incomplete picture of customer informat...
04/11/2025
Upgrade Azure Database for PostgreSQL with Minimal Downtime Using Logical Replication
Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a seamless Major Version Upgrade (MVU) experience for your servers, which is important for security, performance, and feature enhancements. For production workloads, minimizing downtime during this upgrade is essential to maintain business continuity. This blog explores a practical approach to performing a Major Version Up...
04/11/2025
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes updates to Azure Sphere OS only; it does not include an updated SDK. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from the cloud. The 25.10 OS Retail release includes quality and underlying build system updates. For self-help inquiries or technical support, review the
04/11/2025
UX Updates, AI Actions & Forms in Document Libraries
SharePoint document libraries are getting some major upgrades! We’re excited to share several improvements rolling out now (or very soon) that make libraries more user-friendly, powerful, and intelligent. You’ll notice an updated user experience, new AI-powered actions that bring Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities into document libraries, and the ability to create custom forms for document collection in all document libraries. All these ...
04/11/2025
Partner Case Study | Encodian
Empowering automation for Microsoft 365 From its headquarters in the United Kingdom, Encodian serves more than 40,000 customers around the world, encompassing government, education, legal services, the financial sector, and beyond. Its growing team of nearly 50 staff members embody a culture rooted in innovation and practical enablement, building tools that slot seamlessly into Microsoft 365 so users don't need to leave the platforms they trust. Encodian became a Microsoft partner in...
04/11/2025
Microsoft AI Tour: MVPs, Community, Connection, and the Future of AI
Imagine stepping into a room buzzing with energy, where experts and newcomers alike are exploring the future of AI together. That’s the energy of the Microsoft AI Tour - and it’s the Microsoft MVP community that helps make it truly special. The
04/11/2025
SQL Spotlight: Ignite 2025
Ignite 2025: Your SQL GuideMicrosoft Ignite 2025 is less than 30 days away! Whether you’re a data professional, DBA, or developer, this event is your chance to dive in, expand knowledge, and connect with fellow SQL experts. Join Microsoft leaders and customers as they share best practices, practical insights from across the SQL portfolio. Be the first to hear the latest releases, dive in with hands-on labs, and new learning paths to grow your skill set. Grab your...
04/11/2025
Unlocking Business Impact with Microsoft 365 Copilot: Turning AI Adoption into Measurable Value
In boardrooms and leadership meetings, a similar question is being asked: “What returns are we really getting from AI?” The release of a new whitepaper —
04/11/2025
Microsoft 365 Certification
Why Microsoft 365 Certified Apps and Agents Matter for IT Admins As an IT Admin, you're constantly balancing innovation, security, and user productivity. With the growing ecosystem of apps/agents integrating into Microsoft 365, how do you ensure the ones your organization adopts are secure, compliant...
04/11/2025
Exciting news: Microsoft Learn Community is moving!
We’ve got some big news to share: the Microsoft Learn community and blog are packing up and moving to a brand-new, bigger destination—The Skills Hub community and blog! This ...
04/11/2025
Build with Copilot Pages: A new way to bring your ideas to life
Have an idea but need a collaborator that can build it for you? Or wish you could visually explore topics through dynamic, interactive experiences instead of scrolling through long pages of text? Now, Copilot can write code using the latest LLM models and let you preview it directly in a Copilot Page, enabling rich, immersive experiences—with zero coding skills required. If you can imagine it, you can build it.
04/11/2025
Zero-Trust Kubernetes: Enforcing Security & Multi-Tenancy with Custom Admission Webhooks
Admission controllers act as Kubernetes’ built-in gatekeepers that intercept API requests after authentication/authorization but before they're persisted to etcd. They can validate or mutate incoming objects, ensuring everything that enters your cluster meets defined policies. We strengthen this mechanism with OPA Gatekeeper (policy-as-code, integrated with Azure Policy on AKS), Kyverno (YAML-based policy engine), and custom admissio...
04/11/2025
SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP TechEd 2025
Today at SAP TechEd 2025, we are excited to share the next evolution of the Microsoft-SAP partnership. Building on decades of collaboration, we continue to advance RISE with SAP on Azure and deepen integrations with SAP S/4HANA Cloud public edition. Our latest innovations deliver enhanced security for SAP and non-SAP workloads, while unified analytics and AI-driven Copilot experiences empower customers to make smarter decisions. These advancements are designed to help customers acceler...
04/11/2025
Driving cloud-first identity: User SOA is now Public Preview and Group SOA is Generally Available
Back in August, I shared how Group Source of Authority (SOA) conversion helps organizations govern legacy groups in the cloud, simplifying on-premises cleanup and extending governance to apps that still rely on Active Directory (AD). Today, I’m excited to announce two major updates to assist in securing hybrid identities: Group SOA conversion is now generally available. User SOA conversion is in public preview. Why this matters Man...
04/11/2025
Unified Reporting in Microsoft Purview : Know your data posture
If you've ever struggled to answer questions like "How well are we protecting sensitive data?" or "Which DLP policies are actually working?", you know the frustration. Data scattered across multiple tools, no unified view, and executives asking for metrics you can't easily provide. That changes today. At Microsoft Purview, we've heard from thousands of customers about the visibility gap in data protection programs. You deploy policies, configure labels, and enable DLP: but provi...
04/11/2025
Part 3: Client-Side Multi-Agent Orchestration on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework
In Part 2 of this series, I showed you how to build sophisticated multi-agent systems on Azure App Service using Azure AI Foundry Agents—server-side ma...
04/11/2025
Welcome to The Skills Hub—Our new community home!
Hello there, friends, learners, and fellow skilling enthusiasts! We’re thrilled to roll out the virtual welcome mat at The Skills Hub on Microsoft Tech Community—your new go-to spot for all things AI, cloud, professional, and organizational skilling. If you’re picturing us surrounded by cardboard boxes and bubble wrap, you’re not far off! We’re still busy unpacking the last of our favorite articles and hanging up digital pictures to make the place feel like home. Over ...
04/11/2025
Unlocking Business Value: Microsoft's Dual Approach to AI for Security and Security for AI
Overview In an era where cyber threats evolve at an unprecedented pace and artificial intelligence (AI) transforms business operations, Microsoft stands at the forefront with a comprehensive strategy that addresses both leveraging AI to bolster security and safeguarding AI systems themselves. This white paper, presented in blog post format, explores Microsoft's business value model for "AI for Security" – using AI to enhance threat detection, response, and prevention...
04/11/2025
Introducing the enhanced query diagnostics in Azure Log Analytics
We’re excited to introduce a set of new capabilities that simplify query diagnostics and troubleshooting in Azure Log Analytics. With this new experience, users can now easily resolve query issues that may surface using the suggested recommendations, have a deeper visibility into query execution statistics and utilize those to optimize query performances. What’s new? Improved query notification experience
04/11/2025
Take Data Management to the next level with Silk Software-Defined Azure Storage
Note: This article is co-authored by our partner Silk. In today’s data-driven world, every enterprise is under pressure to make smarter decisions faster. Whether you're running production databases, training machine learning models, running advanced analytics, or building customer-facing applications, your data needs to be more agile, secure, and readily accessible than ever before. That’s where Silk’s software-defined clo...
04/11/2025
10 Python One-Liners for Calculating Model Feature Importance
Understanding machine learning models is a vital aspect of building trustworthy AI systems.
04/11/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #3: Fix FATAL: sorry, too many clients already
Co-authored with angesalsaa Symptoms Application errors indicating connection failures Error message in logs: FATAL: sorry, too many clients already High CPU utilization during peak traffic Short-lived connections (<...
04/11/2025
Comparing the Top 7 Large Language Models LLMs/Systems for Coding in 2025
Code-oriented large language models moved from autocomplete to software engineering systems. In 2025, leading models must fix real GitHub issues, refactor multi-repo backends, write tests, and run as agents over long context windows. The main question for teams is not “can it code” but which model fits which constraints. Here are seven models (and systems […] The post
04/11/2025
AI-powered intranet solution built on SharePoint - Fresh Intranet - SharePoint Partner Showcase
We are excited to start a new blog post series focused on the different partner offerings around SharePoint in Microsoft 365. In this first post, we focus on Advania’s Fresh Intranet – an AI powered intranet solution built natively on Microsoft SharePoint. In this short conversation and demo, David Bowman, Product Director at Advania, and
04/11/2025
Cache-to-Cache(C2C): Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models via KV-Cache Fusion
Can large language models collaborate without sending a single token of text? a team of researchers from Tsinghua University, Infinigence AI, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shanghai AI Laboratory, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University say yes. Cache-to-Cache (C2C) is a new communication paradigm where large language models exchange information through their KV-Cache rather than […] The post
04/11/2025
On‑Device AI with Windows AI Foundry
From “waiting” to “instant”- without sending data away AI is everywhere, but speed, privacy, and reliability are critical. Users expect instant answers without compromise. On-device AI makes that possible: fast, private and available, even when the network isn’t - empowering apps to deliver seamless experiences. Imagine an intelligent assistant that works in seconds, without sending a text to the cloud. This approach brings speed...
04/11/2025
Low-Light Image Enhancer (Python + OpenCV) on Azure App Service
Low-light photos are everywhere: indoor team shots, dim restaurant pics, grainy docs. This post shows a tiny Python app (Flask + OpenCV) that fixes them with explainable image processing—not a heavyweight model. We’ll walk the code that does the real work (CLAHE → gamma → brightness → subtle saturation) and deploy it to Azure App Service for Linux. What you’ll build A Flask web app that accepts an image upload, ...
04/11/2025
Evolving SAP Testing on Azure: What’s New in the SAP Testing Automation Framework
We're announcing the general availability (GA) of the SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF), an open-source orchestration tool that automates validation of SAP ...
04/11/2025
Postgres Trip Summary from PGConf EU 2025 (with lots of photos)
Missed PGConf EU 2025 in Riga? No worries, this trip report aims to give you highlights, reflections, and a ton of photos to give you a feel for the vibe. But where to begin? So much happened, it’s a bit hard to choose what to share. Quick context: PGConf EU is a traveling Postgres conference that lands in a different major European city each year (you can
04/11/2025
How to Build Supervised AI Models When You Don’t Have Annotated Data
One of the biggest challenges in real-world machine learning is that supervised models require labeled data—yet in many practical scenarios, the data you start with is almost always unlabeled. Manually annotating thousands of samples isn’t just slow; it’s expensive, tedious, and often impractical. This is where active learning becomes a game-changer. Active learning is a […] The post
03/11/2025
Anyscale and NovaSky Team Releases SkyRL tx v0.1.0: Bringing Tinker Compatible Reinforcement Learning RL Engine To Local GPU Clusters
How can AI teams run Tinker style reinforcement learning on large language models using their own infrastructure with a single unified engine? Anyscale and NovaSky (UC Berkeley) Team releases SkyRL tx v0.1.0 that gives developers a way to run a Tinker compatible training and inference engine directly on their own hardware, while keeping the same […] The post
03/11/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Sentinel: November 2025
Welcome to our new Microsoft Sentinel blog series! We’re excited to launch a new blog series focused on Microsoft Sentinel. From the latest product innovations and feature updates to industry recognition, success stories, and major events, you’ll find it all here. This first post kicks off the series by celebrating Microsoft’s recognition as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM 1. It also introduces the latest innovations designed to delive...
03/11/2025
Announcing SQLCon 2026: Better Together with FabCon!
We’re thrilled to unveil SQLCon 2026, the premier Microsoft SQL Community Conference, co-located with the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) from March 16–20, 2026! This year, we’re bringing the best of both worlds under one roof—uniting the vibrant SQL and Fabric communities for a truly next-level ...
03/11/2025
Ensure your ICES solution works seamlessly alongside Microsoft Defender
In today’s evolving threat landscape, organizations increasingly rely on layered email security solutions to protect users and sensitive data. Microsoft supports and collaborates with Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) vendors that work in conjunction with Microsoft Defender, and customers who choose a layered approach to email security to ensure the maximum level of email protection.
03/11/2025
New developer resource page for Microsoft 365 interoperability and data portability
Microsoft has long provided interoperability information, interfaces, and tools to help our vibrant ecosystem of partners integrate their products and services with Microsoft 365 productivity applications. This ecosystem includes communication and collaboration solution providers that compete with Microsoft Teams. Alongside these resources, we have also offered data portability solutions to our customers to allow them to move betwee...
03/11/2025
Support tip: Aligning network policy with Microsoft Intune and Zero Trust
By: Jon Callahan – Sr Product Manager | Microsoft Intune Cloud services don’t just rely on the network. They redefine it. As organizations adopt Microsoft Intune and advance their Zero Trust strategies, many discover that traditional, perimeter-based architectures no longer align with modern security expectations or the connectivity needs of a distributed workforce. Zero Trust is built on the principle of "never trust, always veri...
03/11/2025
Microsoft Entra: Building Trust in a Borderless Digital World
As nonprofits embrace hybrid work, multi-cloud environments, and digital transformation to better serve their missions, the need for secure, intelligent access has never been greater. Traditional identity solutions often fall short in protecting diverse user groups like staff, volunteers, donors, and partners.Microsoft Entra offers a unified family of identity and network access products designed to verify every identity, validate every access req...
03/11/2025
Comprehensive Identity Protection—Across Cloud and On-Premises
Hybrid IT environments, identity is the new perimeter—and protecting it requires visibility across both cloud and on-premises systems. While Microsoft Entra secures cloud identities with intelligent access controls, Microsoft Defender for Identity brings deep insight into your on-premises Active Directory. Together, they form a powerful duo for comprehensive identity protection. Why Hybrid Identity Protection Matters Most organizations haven’t fully ...
03/11/2025
Federal Endpoint Management Briefings
We're extending an invite to our Public Sector customers in the GCC, GCC-High and DoD IL5 clouds to attend our Federal Endpoint Management briefings, designed exclusively for Federal and DIB customers. Our experts will explore the latest strategies, tools, and innovations. Each session will feature practical guidance...
03/11/2025
Windows news you can use: October 2025
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is coming soon: November 18 – 21. Read up on the range of sessions including breakouts (in person and online), hands-on labs, community roundtables, and much more. You can register for digital Microsoft Ignite and plan your event schedule now. Have questions about what you learned at Microsoft Ignite? Save the date ...
03/11/2025
Preparing commercial Windows 10 devices for ESUs
As support for Windows 10 officially ended on October 14, 2025, it is important that organizations with devices remaining on Windows 10 stay as protected as possible through the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. To help ensure your Windows 10 devices are activated with an ESU license, here i...
03/11/2025
Breaking the Million-Token Barrier: The Technical Achievement of Azure ND GB300 v6
By Mark Gitau (Software Engineer) and Hugo Affaticati (Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer) The new Azure ND GB300 v6 virtual machines, built on the cutting-edge NVIDIA Blackwell architecture introduced with the
03/11/2025
Get ready: Microsoft Ignite 2025 is almost here!
Microsoft Ignite 2025 (November 18–21) is coming up, and it’s time to get ready. Whether you join in person or digitally, this can’t-miss event is designed to help you build connections, accelerate customer conversations, and gain exclusive access to product updates to shape your 2026 plans.
03/11/2025
Retirement of the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel and next steps
On December 8, 2025, the Visio Data Visualizer add-in will be removed from the Excel add-in store, along with its related Excel templates. However, users will h...
03/11/2025
Introducing Microsoft M365 Business Premium for GCC-High
We’re excited to announce the availability of Microsoft 365 Business Premium for GCC-High. This purpose-built productivity suite is designed for organizations with high security and compliance requirements and supports up to 500 seats. Stay compliant without compromise
03/11/2025
October Update: What's new in Azure for Partners
Navigate to News and Announcements, Incentives and Offers, Skilling and Events, Go-To-Market, Customer Success<...
03/11/2025
7 hidden gems to effectively manage your tasks in Microsoft Planner
Hi, Insiders! I’m Nancy Wang, a Product Manager on the Planner team. Microsoft Planner is more than just task boards and buckets. Here are some hidden gems – including Copilot-powered features – that can help you plan smarter, collaborate better, and save time. 1. Update tasks simultaneously With bulk editing, you can update multiple tasks at the same time. Assign tasks, adjust priorities, update progress, and modify start and due dates, all in one go. To get started, n...
03/11/2025
Introducing voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot: a more productive way to work on the go.
Introducing voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Now you can talk to Copilot, interrupt naturally, and get real-time spoken responses grounded in your work and web data—just click “Start a new voice chat” in the input box. Because work doesn’t stop at your desk, voice helps you stay productive anywhere—hands-free, on the go, or while multitasking. Available ...
03/11/2025
Delivering more threat hunting insights with Microsoft Defender Experts’ newest capabilities
The cybersecurity threat landscape continues to evolve with novel attacks and techniques emerging each day. Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, included with Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, helps security teams stay ahead of ev...
03/11/2025
Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - November 2025
In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month Novembers’s Ace Aviator: Al Ghoniem Al Ghoniem...
03/11/2025
Microsoft Teams Town Hall: Host Professional Digital and Hybrid Events at Scale
Over the past year, Microsoft Teams town hall has made significant strides, continuing to evolve as a platform for scalable digital and hybrid events. It now provides enhanced production controls and richer attendee experiences. Whether you’re hosting a company-wide all hands, a hybrid town hall from your headquarters, or a large presentation for clients, Teams town hall provides a unified, professional solution that keeps everyone engaged and connected, supp...
03/11/2025
Follow-Up to ‘Important Changes to App Service Managed Certificates’: October 2025 Update
This post provides an update to the Tech Community article ‘Important Changes to App Ser...
03/11/2025
Python + IA: Resumen y Recursos
Acabamos de concluir nuestra serie sobre Python + IA, un recorrido completo de nueve sesiones donde exploramos a fondo cómo usar modelos de inteligencia artificial generativa desde Python. Durante la serie presentamos varios tipos de modelos, incluyendo LLMs, modelos de embeddings y modelos de visión. Profundizamos en técnicas populares como RAG, tool calling y salidas estructu...
03/11/2025
Security Review for Microsoft Edge version 142
We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft Edge version 142 and determined that there are no additional security settings that require enforcement. The Microsoft Edge version 139 security baseline continues to be our recommended configuration which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. Microsoft Edge version 142 introduced 5 new Computer an...
03/11/2025
Monthly news - November 2025
Microsoft DefenderMonthly news - November 2025 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defender products. In this edition, we are looking at all the goodness from October 2025. Defender for Cloud has its own Monthly News post, have a look at
03/11/2025
7 Prompt Engineering Tricks to Mitigate Hallucinations in LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit outstanding abilities to reason over, summarize, and creatively generate text.
03/11/2025
From Meeting Chaos to Clarity: How AI Turns Transcripts into Backlogs
It all starts in a meeting room. Teams share ideas, debate solutions, and align on goals, but too often, they leave behind chaos instead of clarity—hours of discussion result in lengthy transcripts filled with valuable insights that are never revisited. The result?
03/11/2025
Update Coverage Workbook in Microsoft Defender for Cloud to Include Defender for AI Plan status
Option 1: Update the Existing Coverage Workbook Enhance the current workbook by adding a query that checks Defender for AI plan enablement across subscriptions. Steps Open the Coverage Workbook in Defender for Cloud. Edit the workbook and update the query section to include the line below. AIServices = defenderPlans.AI Display t...
03/11/2025
How to Design a Persistent Memory and Personalized Agentic AI System with Decay and Self-Evaluation?
In this tutorial, we explore how to build an intelligent agent that remembers, learns, and adapts to us over time. We implement a Persistent Memory & Personalisation system using simple, rule-based logic to simulate how modern Agentic AI frameworks store and recall contextual information. As we progress, we see how the agent’s responses evolve with […] The post
03/11/2025
How to Create AI-ready APIs?
Postman recently released a comprehensive checklist and developer guide for building AI-ready APIs, highlighting a simple truth: even the most powerful AI models are only as good as the data they receive—and that data comes through your APIs. If your endpoints are inconsistent, unclear, or unreliable, models waste time fixing bad inputs instead of producing […] The post How to Create AI-ready APIs?...
03/11/2025
LongCat-Flash-Omni: A SOTA Open-Source Omni-Modal Model with 560B Parameters with 27B activated, Excelling at Real-Time Audio-Visual Interaction
How do you design a single model that can listen, see, read and respond in real time across text, image, video and audio without losing the efficiency? Meituan’s LongCat team has released LongCat Flash Omni, an open source omni modal model with 560 billion parameters and about 27 billion active per token, built on the […] The post
02/11/2025
Comparing the Top 6 OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Models/Systems in 2025
Optical character recognition has moved from plain text extraction to document intelligence. Modern systems must read scanned and digital PDFs in one pass, preserve layout, detect tables, extract key value pairs, and work with more than one language. Many teams now also want OCR that can feed RAG and agent pipelines directly. In 2025, 6 […] The post Comp...
02/11/2025
A Coding Implementation of a Comprehensive Enterprise AI Benchmarking Framework to Evaluate Rule-Based LLM, and Hybrid Agentic AI Systems Across Real-World Tasks
In this tutorial, we develop a comprehensive benchmarking framework to evaluate various types of agentic AI systems on real-world enterprise software tasks. We design a suite of diverse challenges, from data transformation and API integration to workflow automation and performance optimization, and assess how various agents, including rule-based, LLM-powered, and hybrid ones, perform across these […] The post
02/11/2025
DeepAgent: A Deep Reasoning AI Agent that Performs Autonomous Thinking, Tool Discovery, and Action Execution within a Single Reasoning Process
Most agent frameworks still run a predefined Reason, Act, Observe loop, so the agent can only use the tools that are injected in the prompt. This works for small tasks, but it fails when the toolset is large, when the task is long, and when the agent must change strategy in the middle of reasoning. […] The post
01/11/2025
Anthropic’s New Research Shows Claude can Detect Injected Concepts, but only in Controlled Layers
How do you tell whether a model is actually noticing its own internal state instead of just repeating what training data said about thinking? In a latest Anthropic’s research study ‘Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models‘ asks whether current Claude models can do more than talk about their abilities, it asks whether they can […] The post
01/11/2025
How to Build an End-to-End Data Engineering and Machine Learning Pipeline with Apache Spark and PySpark
In this tutorial, we explore how to harness Apache Spark’s techniques using PySpark directly in Google Colab. We begin by setting up a local Spark session, then progressively move through transformations, SQL queries, joins, and window functions. We also build and evaluate a simple machine-learning model to predict user subscription types and finally demonstrate how […] The post
01/11/2025
Google AI Unveils Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL): A Step Wise Framework with Expert Trajectories to Teach Small Language Models to Reason through Hard Problems
How can a small model learn to solve tasks it currently fails at, without rote imitation or relying on a correct rollout? A team of researchers from Google Cloud AI Research and UCLA have released a training framework, ‘Supervised Reinforcement Learning’ (SRL), that makes 7B scale models actually learn from very hard math and agent […] The post
01/11/2025
Your city agent speaks 100 languages. But does It understand you?
For many residents, interacting with city services feels like a frustrating experience. Forms are confusing. Wait times are long. And often, it feels like no one is truly listening. Now imagine a city services agent that speaks your language and understands your needs. Some cities already have one. But the real question is not whether they can do it. It is whether they should.SmartCitiesWorld has published a new trend report titled “
31/10/2025
Agentic Integration with SAP, ServiceNow, and Salesforce
Copilot/Copilot Studio Integration with SAP (No Code) By integrating SAP Cloud Identity Services with Microsoft Entra ID, organizations can establish secure, federated identity management across platforms. This configuration enables Microsoft Copilot and Teams to seamlessly connect with SAP’s Joule digital assistant, supporting natural language interactions and automating business processes efficiently.
31/10/2025
From the frontlines: Empowering call center agents with Windows 365 Frontline
By: Tania Lima – Sr Product Manager | Windows 365 Call centers are dynamic environments where agents often work in shifts, handling customer inquiries around the clock. Providing these frontline employees with secure, consistent, and accessible computing environments is critical to maintaining productivity and excellent service. However, traditional desktop deployments, whether physical PCs or complex virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), are often challe...
31/10/2025
Join us for a professional development session on the new AI-powered Teach module in M365 Copilot
Join us on Wednesday, November 19th, 2025, for an in-depth professional development webinar on the new AI-powered "Teach" module in M365 that is fully rolled out and available to everyone. This will be a 45-minute hands-on webinar where the Product Management team will walk through the new updates in detail and you can follow-along at home with your own M365 Education account! This webinar will be available at both 8:00am Pacific Time and 4:00pm Pacific time to cover as man...
31/10/2025
AI architecture: Powering the next generation of business agents
In this installment of our Partner Spotlight series, we’re continuing to showcase the innovators’ driving app and agent development forward on the Microsoft Marketplace. Each feature highlights the distinct journeys of partners who are pioneering AI-powered solutions, building across the Microsoft ecosystem, and delivering transactable applications that are shaping the future of the marketplace. In this article, I sat down with Imran Mahmood from KAISPE to learn more about their story a...
31/10/2025
Revolutionizing Reliability: Introducing the Azure Failure Prediction and Detection (AFPD) system
Blog authored by: Ayberk Ozturk, Andrew Boyd, Otis Smith, Sameer Hussain, Joao Madureira, Ronit Sharma, Isha Bhatia, Halley Ding, Parvaneh Alavi, Jelena Ilic, Kevin Meehan, Steven Li, Arhatha Bramhanand, Nathan Ernst, Abhishek Sanghai, Adam Wilson, Blake Wheaton, Dhruv Matta, Olubusola Femi-Fowode, Shweta Patil, and Tajinder Pal Singh Ahluwalia Introduction As part of the journey to consistently improve Azure reliability and platform stability, ...
31/10/2025
Introducing the PublicNetworkAccess property to Azure Managed Redis
We want to enable users of Azure Managed Redis to disable public traffic without a private endpoint or allow both public and private access simultaneously. In certain enterprise environments, Redis and networking responsibilities are handled by distinct teams. The Data Operations team may securely provision Azure Managed Redis instances with PublicNetworkAccess set to Disabled, subsequently establishing connections to private links overseen by the Networking Operations tea...
31/10/2025
Title Plan Update – October 31, 2025
🎃 October 31, 2025 Title Plan Now Available Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version. 📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan. This means each update may...
31/10/2025
The Future of AI: Building Weird, Warm, and Wildly Effective AI Agents
The Future of AI blog series is an evolving collection of posts from the AI Futures team in collaboration with subject matter experts across Microsoft. In this series, we explore tools and technologies that will drive the next generation of AI. Explore more at: Collections | Microsoft Learn AI doesn’t have to be cold, corporate, or overly complicated. In fact, some of the most...
31/10/2025
Azure capacity planning: Using quotas, reservations, vmss instance mix, and compute fleet
Introduction Over the past few months, I’ve been helping several digital-native customers navigate capacity constraints while scaling AI and compute-intensive workloads on Azure. Many teams run into the same frustrating message: ...
31/10/2025
Part 2: Build Long-Running AI Agents on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent Framework
Last week, I shared how to build long-running AI agents on Azure App Service with Microsoft Agent ...
31/10/2025
What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | October 2025
Welcome to the October 2025 edition of What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new this month: User capabilities:
31/10/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: October 31, 2025
Learn about 228 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
31/10/2025
Multi-agent Workflow with Human Approval using Agent Framework
In modern AI-driven workflows, balancing automation with human oversight is critical, especially for high-stakes decisions. The solution scripts from this article demonstrate an effective approach to orchestrate Agent Framework-powered sequential workflow involving persistent Azure AI Foundry agents, integrating human approval for critical a...
31/10/2025
OpenAI Releases Research Preview of ‘gpt-oss-safeguard’: Two Open-Weight Reasoning Models for Safety Classification Tasks
OpenAI has released a research preview of gpt-oss-safeguard, two open weight safety reasoning models that let developers apply custom safety policies at inference time. The models come in two sizes, gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b, both fine tuned from gpt-oss, both licensed under Apache 2.0, and both available on Hugging Face for local use. Why Policy-Conditioned Safety […] The post
31/10/2025
Dive Deep into .NET Conf Student Zone 2025
While the .NET bot is busy exploring the ocean depths, we're here on the surface, ready to dive into what's new across the .NET ecosystem - AI, .NET Aspire, GitHub Copilot, of course .NET 10, and a whole lot more. Whether you're just starting your coding journey or looking to level up your skills, the .NET Conf Student Zone 2025 is your gateway to the world of modern software development. For all the details, surf to the official site:
31/10/2025
How to Design an Autonomous Multi-Agent Data and Infrastructure Strategy System Using Lightweight Qwen Models for Efficient Pipeline Intelligence?
In this tutorial, we build an Agentic Data and Infrastructure Strategy system using the lightweight Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct model for efficient execution. We begin by creating a flexible LLM agent framework and then develop specialized agents that handle different layers of data management, from ingestion and quality analysis to infrastructure optimization. We integrate these agents into an […] The post
31/10/2025
It’s now easier to access iCloud Mail, Calendar, and Contacts in Outlook
We’re excited to announce that the new Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac, and Outlook for iOS and Android now support easier iCloud Mail, Calendar, and Contacts access. You no longer need to create and enter app-specific passwords to access your iCloud data in Outlook apps. Now using the OAuth 2.0 authentication protocol, simply sign in with your Apple Account to access your iCloud Mail, Calendar, and Contacts in Outlook. Add email account, shown in the new Outlook for Wind...
30/10/2025
Top 5 reasons to attend ESPC25
We are so excited! Don’t miss out on ESPC25, Europe’s premier Microsoft 365 and AI community conference, in Dublin, Ireland. You’ll learn about Microsoft’s product roadmap, gain skills that will help you lead in the era of AI, build connections with a global community of Microsoft experts and enthusiasts—and hav...
30/10/2025
Evolving SAP Testing on Azure: What’s New in the SAP Testing Automation Framework
We're announcing the general availability (GA) of the SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF), an open-source orchestration tool that automates validation of SAP deployments on Microsoft Azure. With this release, High Availability (HA) function testing is now available for SAP HANA scale-up databases and SAP Ce...
30/10/2025
Ant Group Releases Ling 2.0: A Reasoning-First MoE Language Model Series Built on the Principle that Each Activation Enhances Reasoning Capability
How do you build a language model that grows in capacity but keeps the computation for each token almost unchanged? The Inclusion AI team from the Ant Group is pushing sparse large models in a methodical way by releasing Ling 2.0. Ling 2.0 is a reasoning based language model family built on the idea that each […] The post
30/10/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Intune: October 2025
Last week, someone asked me what keeps me up at night when it comes to endpoint management. The answer surprised them; it was not the sophisticated threats or latest vulnerabilities we read about in headlines. What concerns me most is the friction between security and productivity, that invisible tax we've all paid for years when security can get in the way of getting work done. October marks
30/10/2025
Empowering Clinicians with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher Agent: Less Admin, More Patient Care
Healthcare clinicians today face an unsustainable administrative burden – from poring over medical literature to writing reports and documentation – which cuts into the time they can spend with patients. Studies have found that for every 1 hour of direct patient care, physicians spend about 2 hours on EHR and desk work. Many do...
30/10/2025
Smarter Cloud, Smarter Spend: How Azure Powers Cost-Efficient Innovation
In today’s dynamic business environment, organizations are under pressure to innovate rapidly while managing costs effectively. The cloud, especially with AI at the forefront, is driving transformation across industries. But with rising cloud spend and economic uncertainty, cost efficiency has become a top priority. To help customers navigate this challenge, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a
30/10/2025
Safeguarding Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Defender for Office 365
As organizations rely more on Microsoft Teams for daily collaboration, securing this platform has become a top priority. Threat actors are increasingly targeting Teams chats and channels with phishing links and malicious files, making it critical for IT admins and security professionals to extend protection beyond email. Enter Microsoft Defender for Office 365, now armed with dedicated Teams protection capabilities. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 enables users to report suspicious message...
30/10/2025
7 Machine Learning Projects to Land Your Dream Job in 2026
machine learning continues to evolve faster than most can keep up with.
30/10/2025
Back to College Essentials – DfS Accessories That Power Productivity
For more than 11 years, the Designed for Surface (DfS) team has worked with strategic partners to offer solutions that can extend the Surface experience for diverse scenarios. As the nex...
30/10/2025
Simplify Search Development with the New Azure AI Search Wizard
Introducing the New "Import Data" Wizard Recently, Azure AI Search rolled out the "Import Data (new)" wizard, an enhanced experience that merges the capabilities of the older "Import Data" wizard for <...
30/10/2025
GenAI vs Cyber Threats: Why GenAI Powered Unified SecOps Wins
Cybersecurity is evolving faster than ever. Attackers are leveraging automation and AI to scale their operations, so how can defenders keep up? The answer lies in Microsoft Unified Security Operations powered by Generative AI (GenAI). This opens the Cybersecurity Paradox: Attackers only need one successful attempt, but defenders must always be vigilant,...
30/10/2025
Introducing Researcher with Computer Use in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Today we’re excited to announce Researcher with Computer Use in Microsoft 365 Copilot—a major leap toward more autonomous AI that works for you. Now with Computer Use, Researcher goes beyond reasoning and researching. It can now act on your behalf using a secure virtual computer to navigate public, gated, and interactive we...
30/10/2025
Introducing langchain-azure-storage: Azure Storage integrations for LangChain
We're excited to introduce langchain-azure-storage, the first official Azure Storage integration package built by Microsoft for
30/10/2025
Building human-centric security skills for AI
AI is reshaping the workplace, and the organizations thriving in this new era know it takes more than just cutting-edge tech to succeed. A new kind of company is emerging—the so-called Frontier Firm. These organizations are building their business models around on-demand intelligence and hybrid human-AI co...
30/10/2025
Research Drop: Amplifying Clarity and Impact of AI Agents by Aligning on Desired Outcomes
Research Drop in Brief: Employees on teams that align on both activities and outcomes they want to achieve with AI agents are 1.9x as likely to be high-frequency agentic AI users compared to teams focused only on activities. Outcome-aligned teams report greater up to 22 percentage-points higher clarity when using multiple agents, such as clearer use cases and deeper understanding of capabilities. When teams plan for out...
30/10/2025
Simplifying compliance remediation with Microsoft Intune and Defender on iOS/iPadOS
By: Harish S | Sr. Product Manager - Microsoft Defender & Rishita Sarin | Product Manager 2 - Microsoft Intune One tap to compliance: Introducing the Resolve workflow for Compliance Remediation in Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Defender on iOS. We’re thrilled to announce a major step forward in simplifying the compliance remediation experience for users and IT admins alike. As part of a collaboration between Micro...
30/10/2025
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | October 2025
Before we get to this month’s new Teams features, I’m thrilled to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service for the 7th year in a row. We are honored to again be positioned highest for ability to execute and furthest for completeness of vision in the evaluation’s axes. We believe this recognition underscores the product innovations we delivered over this past year, such as the launch of agents in meetings ...
30/10/2025
Your guide to Windows at Microsoft Ignite 2025
The Windows Platform is evolving—learn the latest Microsoft Ignite 2025 is coming to San Francisco, November 18-21, and we’re excited to share the latest details on everything new in Windows! Whether you’re attending in-person or digitally, we’ve got you covered.
30/10/2025
Building learning communities: Microsoft MVPs making a difference with Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Learn continues to evolve with the help of our global community of Microsoft MVPs. MVPs build and sustain communities of learning by creating resources, organizing inclusive events, mentoring peers, connecting learners with the right content, and sharing feedback on Learn. Meet a fe...
30/10/2025
Your guide to Intune at Microsoft Ignite 2025
The Microsoft Intune team is gearing up for Microsoft Ignite, happening November 17-21 in San Francisco! Whether you'll be joining in person or online, this guide is the best place to learn all about the sessions and experiences where you can connect with the Intune team, learn about the latest innovations, and boost your skills. Don't forget to register today. Attendees will have opportunities ...
30/10/2025
Microsoft Syntex: "Turning Your Documents into Digital Intelligence”
In today’s digital workplace, organizations generate a massive volume of content contracts, invoices, reports, emails, and more. Managing this information manually is not only inefficient but also error prone.Microsoft Syntex, an AI-powered service within Microsoft 365, transforms how businesses handle content by automating classification, metadata extraction, compliance, and even document generation.Now, with deeper integration into Microsoft Teams
30/10/2025
Quick look at journey of Agentic Solutions, from No‑code to Developer tools
Why this journey matters My journey with Bot, virtual agents and personal assistants has been quite long and, in this time, not only has the usage and user scenario evolved but the technology and platforms that fueled it sign...
30/10/2025
Planning for a quantum future: How to secure data today with Commvault in Microsoft Marketplace
In this guest blog post, Michael Fasulo, Senior Director of Portfolio Marketing at Commvault, discusses how quantum computing will threaten cryptography and how Commvault Cloud in Microsoft Marketplace can help. In today’s digital economy, trust is currency – and cryptography is its vault. Every transaction, login, and backup rely on encryption to keep data safe. But what happens when the locks we’ve relied on for decades are no longer secure? That’s not a hypothe...
30/10/2025
Lessons Learned #538: Printing One Line Per Field in T-SQL in Azure SQL Database.
Working on a case with a huge number of columns I needed to dump records as one line per field. Happy to share this script that it was useful. For example, I would like to have the data in this way. Id: 123 Status: Open Title: Connectivity issue Running the following TSQL, I was able to obtain the info as I expected. ;WITH src AS ( SELECT top 10000 * FROM dbo.Incidents ORDER BY IncidentId ) SELECT s.IncidentId, f.ord, ...
30/10/2025
Koulutus on kasvun moottori – miksi Microsoftin kumppanien kannattaa panostaa osaamiseen?
Digitalisaation ja tekoälyn aikakaudella tekninen osaaminen ei ole enää vain tukitoiminto – se on liiketoiminnan ydin. Microsoftin tuore tutkimus osoittaa, että projektivalmiit ja työkuormaan kohdennetut koulutukset parantavat kumppaneiden menestystä merkittävästi: ne nopeuttavat kauppojen läpimenoa, nostavat voittoprosenttia ja avaavat ovia kannattavampiin ratkaisuihin. Koulutus ei s...
30/10/2025
Microsoft Sentinel for SAP Agentless connector GA
Dear Community, Today is the day: Our new agentless connector for Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP applications is Generally Available now! Fully onboarded to SAP’s official Business Accelerator Hub and ready for prime time wherever your SAP systems are waiting – on-premises, hyperscalers, RISE, or GROW – to be protected...
30/10/2025
Edge AI for Beginners : Getting Started with Foundry Local
In Module 08 of the EdgeAI for Beginners course, Microsoft introduces Foundry Local a toolkit that helps you deploy and test Small Language Models (SLMs) completely offline. In this blog, I’ll share how I installed Foundry Local, ran the Phi-3.5-mini model on my windows laptop, and what I learned through the pr...
30/10/2025
The Complete Guide to Renewing an Expired Certificate in Microsoft HPC Pack 2019 (Single Head Node)
Managing certificates in an HPC Pack 2019 cluster is critical for secure communication between nodes. However, if your certificate has expired, your cluster services (Scheduler, Broker, Web Components, etc.) may stop functioning properly — preventing nodes from communicating or jobs from scheduling. When the HPC Pack certificate expires, the HPC Cluster Manager will fail to launch, and you may encounter error messages ...
30/10/2025
How to Build Ethically Aligned Autonomous Agents through Value-Guided Reasoning and Self-Correcting Decision-Making Using Open-Source Models
In this tutorial, we explore how we can build an autonomous agent that aligns its actions with ethical and organizational values. We use open-source Hugging Face models running locally in Colab to simulate a decision-making process that balances goal achievement with moral reasoning. Through this implementation, we demonstrate how we can integrate a “policy” model […] The post
30/10/2025
Build an AI-Powered Chat App in Minutes with AI Toolkit
AI Toolkit VS Code extension is a great place for developers to experiment, prototype, and learn about AI workflows. Developers exploring AI often start in "Model Playground" — experimenting with models, testing prompts, and iterating on ideas. But turning those experiments into real applications can take time.
30/10/2025
IBM AI Team Releases Granite 4.0 Nano Series: Compact and Open-Source Small Models Built for AI at the Edge
Small models are often blocked by poor instruction tuning, weak tool use formats, and missing governance. IBM AI team released Granite 4.0 Nano, a small model family that targets local and edge inference with enterprise controls and open licensing. The family includes 8 models in two sizes, 350M and about 1B, with both hybrid SSM […] The post
30/10/2025
Add Sidecars to Azure App Service for Linux—via GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines
Sidecars on Azure App Service let you run helper containers (telemetry, OTEL/monitoring agents, lightweight APIs, caches, AI helpers) alongside your main app—same app, shared lifecycle, localhost networking—without changing your core code. We’ve published ready-to-use templates for both GitH...
30/10/2025
Ubuntu-Powered Runtimes on Azure App Service for Linux: Leaner, Faster, Stronger
We’re updating the OS foundation for new code-based stacks on Azure App Service for Linux. Every new major version of our supported stacks will target Ubuntu going forward - this includes the new versions for .NET 10, Python 3.14, Node 24, PHP 8.5 and Java 25 - all expected to rollout in the next couple of months. Existing stacks remain on Debian, and nothing changes for your current apps un...
30/10/2025
Python 3.14 is now available on Azure App Service for Linux
If you’ve been waiting to run Python 3.14 in on Azure App Service - it’s here. Azure App Service for Linux now offers Python 3.14 as a first-class runtime. You can create a new 3.14 app through the Azure portal, automate it with the Azure CLI, or roll it out using your favorite ARM/Bicep templates — and App Service continues to handle the OS, runtime updates, and patching for you so you can stay focused on code. Why Python 3.14 matters
30/10/2025
Copilot Vision: Visual AI Guidance That Transforms Everyday Productivity
Copilot Vision brings visual, onscreen guidance to Microsoft 365 so you can see what to do, not just read about it. This inclusive approach offers clear, visual cues and step-by-step help, making it easy for everyone—regardless of learning style or ability—to confidentl...
30/10/2025
Connecting the Dots: How MCP Enables Context-Aware Agents Across Diverse Data Sources
Unlock the power of MCP—connect data dots, break silos, and let your agents deliver smarter, real-time answers Introduction As a passionate innovator in AI systems, I’m on a mission to redefine how intelligent agents interact with the world—moving beyond isolated prompts to create context-aware, dynamic solutions. With Model Context Protocol (MCP), I aim to empower agents to seamlessly connect, interpret, and unify fragmented data s...
29/10/2025
Simplified Windows Update titles
Windows updates play a vital role in keeping devices secure, performant, and up to date. To further enrich the user experience, we're introducing a simplified and standardized titling system for a range of updates. This new format is designed primarily with the user in mind. Titles are more intuitive, consistent, and informative to help users quickly understand what updates they're receiving.
29/10/2025
Copilot Agents: From Prompts to Agents
AI is changing how we work, but knowing when to use a prompt versus building an agent can make or break your productivity. In our recent webinar with Michael Goad and Jim Warner, we broke down prompt best practices, explained the differences between prompts and agents, and shared...
29/10/2025
Microsoft Releases Agent Lightning: A New AI Framework that Enables Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based Training of LLMs for Any AI Agent
How do you convert real agent traces into reinforcement learning RL transitions to improve policy LLMs without changing your existing agent stack? Microsoft AI team releases Agent Lightning to help optimize multi-agent systems. Agent Lightning is a open-sourced framework that makes reinforcement learning work for any AI agent without rewrites. It separates training from execution, […] The post
29/10/2025
Announcing Qwen3-VL family of models on Azure AI Foundry
We’re excited to share that Qwen3-VL family of vision-language models are now available in Azure AI Foundry thanks to our collaboration with Hugging Face. Our collaboration with Hugging Face models represents a major leap forward in operationalizing open-source AI at scale. By bridging the gap between community-driven innovation and enterprise-grade infrastructure, th...
29/10/2025
Dalec: Declarative Package and Container Builds
Dalec, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project, is a Docker BuildKit frontend that enables users to build system packages and container images from declarative YAML specifications. As a BuildKit frontend, Dalec integrates directly into the Docker build process, requiring no additional tools beyond Docker itself. Dalec’s primary focus is building native Linux packages (RPM and DEB form...
29/10/2025
Secure external attachments with Purview encryption
If you are using Microsoft Purview to secure email attachments, it’s important to understand how Conditional Access (CA) policies and Guest account settings influence the experience for external recipients. Scenario 1: Guest Accounts Enabled ✅ Smooth Experience Each recipient is provisioned with a guest account, allowing them to access the file seamlessly. 📝 Note
29/10/2025
Student-Led Campus Operations Program
The Student-Led Campus Operations Program, powered by Microsoft, enables universities to create student-driven innovation hubs in Cybersecurity and AI. Through this initiative, students gain hands-on experience with Microsoft technologies, earn industry-recognized certifications, and contribute to improving their institution’s operations and digital resilience. By joining the pr...
29/10/2025
Explore Marketplace and partner innovations at Microsoft Ignite 2025
Are you coming to Microsoft Ignite? Microsoft Marketplace has an expanded space in the Hub, in addition to a full slate of must-watch breakout and theater sessions. We are thrilled that the following software companies will be joining Marketplace in the Hub to showcase their cutting-edge solutions:
29/10/2025
Get Started with Git and GitHub: Why Every DevOps Professional Needs These Skills Now
Why Git and GitHub Are Non-Negotiable in DevOps In today’s fast-paced DevOps environments, mastering the basics of git and GitHub isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s essential. Whether you’re a devel...
29/10/2025
Announcing Public Preview: AI Toolkit for GitHub Copilot Prompt-First Agent Development
This week at GitHub Universe, we’re announcing the Public Preview of the GitHub Copilot prompt-first agent development in the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. With this release, building powerful AI agents is now simpler and fa...
29/10/2025
Liquid Glass and template category filters in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS
Hi, Insiders! We’re Jessica Hu and Hugo Garcia, Product Managers on the Apple Experiences team. We’re excited to share a new, modern home experience for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS! Liquid Glass and template category filters in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS Your favorite Microsoft 365 apps on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro now feature Liquid Glass styling. We’ve also made the search experience available from the bottom of the screen, to align with i...
29/10/2025
Announcing Public Preview: AI Toolkit for Prompt-First Agent Development
This week at GitHub Universe, we’re announcing the Public Preview of the GitHub Copilot prompt-first agent development in the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. With this release, building powerful AI agents is now simpler and fa...
29/10/2025
Streamline Cloud Spend with Azure Reserved VM Instances
Cloud costs can feel like a runaway train, especially if you’re running GPU-heavy workloads for AI. Every hour of compute adds up, and before long, your forecasted budget is looking off. This is where Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance can help. When customers commit to using a specific Virtual Machine in a region for a set time they’ll receive a discounted price. In this blog we’ll follow a fictious company, Contoso, that is looking to optimize their VM spend while scaling...
29/10/2025
The Future of AI: From Noise to Insight - An AI Agent for Customer Feedback
The Future of AI blog series is an evolving collection of posts from the AI Futures team in collaboration with subject matter experts across Microsoft. In this series, we explore tools and technologies that will drive the next generation of AI. Explore more at: Collections | Microsoft Learn Every product team wants to be more customer-led. But the reality is messy: feedback pours in from all...
29/10/2025
Powering Up People: Growing Tech Communities Through UK Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Groups
This is the second story in the User Group blog series. In this blog we turn to the UK, home to one of the largest and most active Dynamics 365 and Power Platform communities, to explore how connection and collaboration power lasting growth. Birmingham UG team, attendees and speakers group photo The UK Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Groups began in the early 2000s when
29/10/2025
Why Does an Old Certificate Reappear After Reboot in Azure VMs?
Issue Observed A customer removed an expired SSL certificate from their Azure VM after installing a renewed one. However, after every reboot, the old certificate reappeared, and IIS site bindings automatically started picking it up. Investigation Steps 1. Identify the Process Bringing Back the Certificate To trace the root cause, we configured Sysmon following this guide:
29/10/2025
Microsoft Entra at Ignite 2025: November 17-21
Microsoft Ignite is almost here. Join us from November 17–21, 2025, in San Francisco, California, and online for Microsoft’s largest event of the year. Ignite brings together IT and security professionals, developers, and business leaders from across the globe to explore the future of technology. This year, expect breakthrough insights ...
29/10/2025
SharePoint Showcase highlights: Smarter Copilot responses using metadata with the Knowledge Agent
Hi, Insiders! I’m happy to share highlights from this month’s SharePoint Showcase series, which explores why metadata unlocks smarter responses from Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents, and how the Knowledge Agent in SharePoint can streamline the process of adding metadata to files. Why metadata matters As more teams rely on Copilot and agents to drive productivity, the difference between generic ...
29/10/2025
7 Advanced Feature Engineering Tricks for Text Data Using LLM Embeddings
Large language models (LLMs) are not only good at understanding and generating text; they can also turn raw text into numerical representations called embeddings.
29/10/2025
New in Microsoft Marketplace: 77 offers to introduce October 29, 2025
Learn about 77 new offers that went live in Microsoft Marketplace, a single destination to find, try, and buy cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents to meet your business needs. Get it now in our marketplace
29/10/2025
Level up your Python + AI skills with our complete series
We've just wrapped up our live series on Python + AI, a comprehensive nine-part journey diving deep into how to use generative AI models from Python. The series introduced multiple types of models, including LLMs, embedding models, and vision models. We dug into popular techniques like RAG, tool calling, and structured outputs. We assessed AI quality and safety...
29/10/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned #2: Fixing Read Only Mode Storage Threshold Explained
Co-authored with angesalsaa The issue occurred when the server’s storage usage reached approximately 95% of the allocated capacity. Automatic storage scaling was disabled.
29/10/2025
Liquid AI Releases LFM2-ColBERT-350M: A New Small Model that brings Late Interaction Retrieval to Multilingual and Cross-Lingual RAG
Can a compact late interaction retriever index once and deliver accurate cross lingual search with fast inference? Liquid AI released LFM2-ColBERT-350M, a compact late interaction retriever for multilingual and cross-lingual search. Documents can be indexed in one language, queries can be written in many languages, and the system retrieves with high accuracy. The Liquid AI […] The post
29/10/2025
Using Microsoft Sentinel MCP Server with GitHub Copilot for AI-Powered Threat Hunting
Introduction This post walks through how to get started with the Microsoft Sentinel MCP Server and showcases a hands-on demo integrating with Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot. Using the MCP server, you can run natural language queries against Microsoft Sentinel’s security data lake, enabling faster investigations and simplified threat hunting using tools you already know. This blog includes a real-wo...
29/10/2025
How Exploration Agents like Q-Learning, UCB, and MCTS Collaboratively Learn Intelligent Problem-Solving Strategies in Dynamic Grid Environments
In this tutorial, we explore how exploration strategies shape intelligent decision-making through agent-based problem solving. We build and train three agents, Q-Learning with epsilon-greedy exploration, Upper Confidence Bound (UCB), and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), to navigate a grid world and reach a goal efficiently while avoiding obstacles. Also, we experiment with different ways of […] The post
29/10/2025
Copilot Retention, Auditing and eDiscovery: A deep dive
Last Friday’s session was a powerhouse of insights for anyone navigating compliance in the age of AI. We explored how retention policies, audit logs, and eDiscovery apply to Copilot interactions, ensuring organizations can meet regulatory requirements while leveraging AI responsibly. If you missed the session, we have you covered you can view it here https://aka.ms/Compli...
28/10/2025
MiniMax Releases MiniMax M2: A Mini Open Model Built for Max Coding and Agentic Workflows at 8% Claude Sonnet Price and ~2x Faster
Can an open source MoE truly power agentic coding workflows at a fraction of flagship model costs while sustaining long-horizon tool use across MCP, shell, browser, retrieval, and code? MiniMax team has just released MiniMax-M2, a mixture of experts MoE model optimized for coding and agent workflows. The weights are published on Hugging Face under […] The post
28/10/2025
Accelerating Cloud-Native Development with AI-Powered Azure NetApp Files VS Code Extension
Table of Contents Abstract The Enterprise Challenge: Storage Complexity at Scale Introducing the Azure NetApp Files VS Code Extension Technical Architecture: Building for Developer P...
28/10/2025
Webinar | Session 3: Mastering Copilot Governance Purview for Microsoft 365 + Agents
In our latest Mastering Copilot Governance webinar, we are joining by Principle Solution Engineer, Arlie Hartman, as we shifted focus Purview, where with great power comes the need for strong governance, especially when it comes to sensitive information and regulatory compliance...
28/10/2025
Azure Migrate Expands Capabilities to Accelerate Migration to Azure Local
As organizations accelerate their digital transformation, Microsoft provides flexible paths to migrate and modernize applications, enabling businesses to choose the best approach for their needs - whether embracing the cloud, leveraging cloud-managed infrastructure locally, or balancing both. Unified management, governance, and security can be applied across all strategies, empowering organizations to utilize cloud-based tools, policies, and monitoring wherever their workloads reside. ...
28/10/2025
Mastering the AZ-104 Exam: Golu’s Guide to Passing & Levelling Up Your Cloud Career!
The AZ-104 exam is designed to test your knowledge and skills in administering Azure services. Passing this exam will validate your expertise in Azure administration and enhance your career opportunities in cloud computing. Being the Global Courseware Lead for AZ-104 Course and as a Microsoft Technical Trainer at Microsoft, I got to work with a lot of different versions of thi...
28/10/2025
MSL correction from clone to multistate HANA DB Cluster SUSE activation
Introduction: SAP HANA system replication involves configuring one primary node and at least one secondary node. Any changes made to the data on the primary node are replicated to the secondary node synchronously. This ensures that we have a consistent and up-to-date backup, which is crucial for maintaining the integrity and availability of our data. Problem Description: Azure VM was in a degraded state causing a major outage since th...
28/10/2025
Reimagining AI at scale: NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 on Azure
By Gohar Waqar, CVP of Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering, Microsoft Microsoft was the first hyperscaler to deploy the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 infrastructure at scale – with a fully integrated platform engineered to deliver unprecedented compute density in a ...
28/10/2025
NVIDIA NIM for NVIDIA Nemotron, Cosmos, & Microsoft Trellis: Now Available in Azure AI Foundry
We’re excited to announce 7 new powerful NVIDIA NIM™ additions to
28/10/2025
General Availability of CAPTCHA in Azure Front Door WAF
We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) CAPTCHA challenge for Azure Front Door, empowering customers to better defend their web applications against automated bot attacks while ensuring legitimate users can still access their apps seamlessly. This milestone marks the culmination of a successful public preview that saw hundreds of customers defend against more than 700 million bot requests, reinforcing the value of interactive...
28/10/2025
Partner Blog | Unifying the data platform for real-time insights
Every organization is looking for quicker insights, stronger security, and new ways to drive innovation with AI. The real challenge lies in connecting and preparing the data that makes those outcomes possible. Across industries, customers are realizing that data sprawl and disconnected systems limit what AI can do. To unlock the potential of their data and deliver real-time impact, they need a modern data foundation that’s integrated...
28/10/2025
Partner Case Study | ALIANDO
What if every department in a financial services firm had its own AI assistant—one that could summarize documents, automate workflows, and deliver real-time insights? That’s the kind of transformation ALIANDO specializes in. As a Microsoft partner, ALIANDO helps organizations modernize operations through intelligent automation and cloud innovation. With deep expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI, and Power Platform, the company designs scalable solutions that connect data, accelerate...
28/10/2025
Advanced Meeting Features in MS Teams: Breakout Rooms, Live Transcription and Intelligent Recap
Microsoft Teams has solidified its role as a cornerstone of modern workplace collaboration, facilitating daily communication for over 320 million active users globally as of 2024. While core capabilities like chat, file sharing, and video conferencing remain central, it’s the platform’s evolving suite of meeting enhancements Breakout Rooms, Live Transcription, and Intelligent Recap that are transforming virtual collaboration in 2025. These innovations harness AI, real-time engagement, and aut...
28/10/2025
Overload to Optimal: Tuning Microsoft Fabric Capacity
Co-Authored by: Daya Ram, Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect Optimizing Microsoft Fabric capacity is both a performance and cost exercise. By diagnosing workloads, tuning cluster and Spark settings, and applying data best practices, teams can reduce run times, avoid throttling, and lower total cost of ownership—without compromising SLAs. Use Fabric’s built-in observability (Monitoring...
28/10/2025
The Complete Guide to Model Context Protocol
Language models can generate text and reason impressively, yet they remain isolated by default.
28/10/2025
Make tech matter where it counts most
Cybersecurity In a digital world, trust is everything. As organizations grow more distributed, the risks of phishing, ransomware, and insider threats rise daily. But AI is turning security into more than a defense,,it’s becoming a competitive advantage. From protecting research labs to keeping universities secure, the stakes are high, and the opportunities are wide open. How could you build...
28/10/2025
Sprint to Imagine Cup: Igniting Innovation on Campus
In the first two weeks since launch, Sprint to Imagine Cup events have already engaged hundreds of students across universities worldwide. Led by Microsoft MVPs and industry experts, these interactive sessions are equipping student founders with the knowledge and tools to harness Microsoft AI, not only to advance their technical skills and business potential but to create solutions that drive meaningful impact across communities and industries. Microsoft Developer Technologies MV...
28/10/2025
Run agentless SAP connector cost-efficiently
The SAP agentless connector uses SAP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration/CPI) to fetch SAP audit log data and forward it to Microsoft Sentinel. Because SAP CPI billing typically reflects message counts and data volume, you can tune the connector to control costs—while preserving reliability and timeliness. Cost reductions primarily come from sending fewer CPI messages
28/10/2025
Work smarter with Copilot in the People, Files, and Calendar apps
Hey, Insiders! I’m Yash Kamalanath, a Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft 365 companion apps team. I’m excited to share that the companion apps – People, Files, and Calendar – are now smarter than ever: Microsoft 365 Copilot is built into People and Files, with Copilot in Calendar coming soon. These smart agents make finding what you need and getting things done in Windows lightning fast. Work smarter with Copilot in the People, Files, and Calendar apps Looking up a col...
28/10/2025
MODIS October 2025: Transforming Organizational Data Ingestion in Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Viva
Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 is a robust platform that streamlines how admins and data custodians bring HR data into Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Viva. With a single, secure ingestion point, Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 validates data integrity, enables access to shared data services, and governs data usage — empowering organizations to unlock business-critical scenarios with confidence. This new update to organizational data ingestion in Microsoft 365 marks a significan...
28/10/2025
Custom detections are now the unified experience for creating detections in Microsoft Defender
As we continue to deliver on our vision to simplify security workflows for the SOC, we are making custom detections the unified solution for building and managing rules over Defender XDR and Sentinel data. While analytics rules remain available, we recommend using custom detections for access to new features and enhancements. Benefits of unified custom detections Adopting custom detections as the primary method for rule management helps streamline operations and enhance securi...
28/10/2025
SharePoint Showcase: How Metadata and the Knowledge Agent Elevate Microsoft 365 Copilot Responses
This month’s SharePoint Showcase highlights a breakthrough for organizations embracing AI: Knowledge Agent in SharePoint. As more teams rely on Copilot and agents to drive productivity, the difference between generic and truly valuable responses comes down to how your content is structured and enriched. In this ...
28/10/2025
What's New in Excel (October 2025)
Welcome to the October 2025 update. This month, look for Agent Mode in Excel (Frontier) in the Tools menu of Copilot for Excel. Additionally, PivotTable #SPILL and accessibility assistant updates are now available to Insider users on Windows and Mac. Formula by Example has also rolled out to the Current Channel for Excel on Windows. Excel for web:- Agent Mode in Excel (Frontier) Excel for Windows and Mac:- PivotTable #S...
28/10/2025
From complexity to clarity: How Zammo Agents in Microsoft Marketplace help unlock AI with Azure
In this guest blog post, Stacey Kyler, Managing Director at Zammo, discusses how Zammo Agents in Microsoft Marketplace overcomes the barriers organizations face when trying to implement AI, enabling them to build and deploy AI agents quickly and intuitively. Artificial intelligence is no longer optional. Customers expect faster service, employees want better tools, and leadership is under pressure to innovate without adding excessive cost or complexity. But for many organizati...
28/10/2025
How to Safely Remove Secrets from Your Git History (The Right Way)
Accidental secret commits are one of the most common and most dangerous security mistakes in modern development. A single leaked API key or connection string can give attackers persistent access long after you’ve deleted the file. The real challenge isn’t fixing the code — it’s cleaning the history. This post walks through how to safely and...
28/10/2025
Zhipu AI Releases ‘Glyph’: An AI Framework for Scaling the Context Length through Visual-Text Compression
Can we render long texts as images and use a VLM to achieve 3–4× token compression, preserving accuracy while scaling a 128K context toward 1M-token workloads? A team of researchers from Zhipu AI release Glyph, an AI framework for scaling the context length through visual-text compression. It renders long textual sequences into images and processes […] The post
28/10/2025
Understanding Small Language Modes
AI Everywhere… But Can It Fit in Your Pocket? We have all seen the magic of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-5 and Gemini. They write essays, generate code, summarize complex topics, and even help with strategy. But here’s the catch: LLMs are huge. They live in the cloud, run on powerful GPUs, and consume massive amounts of energy. Now imagine having that same intelligence on your own device, your phone, laptop, or robot with insta...
28/10/2025
Meet Pyversity Library: How to Improve Retrieval Systems by Diversifying the Results Using Pyversity?
Pyversity is a fast, lightweight Python library designed to improve the diversity of results from retrieval systems. Retrieval often returns items that are very similar, leading to redundancy. Pyversity efficiently re-ranks these results to surface relevant but less redundant items. It offers a clear, unified API for several popular diversification strategies, including Maximal Marginal Relevance […] The post
28/10/2025
How to Build a Fully Interactive, Real-Time Visualization Dashboard Using Bokeh and Custom JavaScript?
In this tutorial, we create a fully interactive, visually compelling data visualization dashboard using Bokeh. We start by turning raw data into insightful plots, then enhance them with features such as linked brushing, color gradients, and real-time filters powered by dropdowns and sliders. As we progress, we bring our dashboard to life with Custom JavaScript […] The post
28/10/2025
Part 2: Building Security Observability Into Your Code - Defensive Programming for Azure OpenAI
Introduction In Part 1, we explored why traditional security monitoring fails for GenAI workloads. We identified the blind spots: prompt injection attacks that bypass WAFs, ephemeral interactions that evade standard logging, and compliance challenges that existing frameworks don't address. Now comes the critical question: What do you actually build into your code to close these gaps? Security for GenAI applications isn't something you bol...
28/10/2025
Unlock Savings with Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan
Introduction As organizations scale their use of Microsoft Copilot Studio from building custom agents to integrating with Dynamics 365, cost predictability and optimization becomes critical. To help you plan confidently and save more, we’re introducing Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan (P3)*, a simple, one‑year plan that delivers volume discounts and automatic billing, so your team can focus on outcomes, not invoices. What is Copilot Credit Pr...
27/10/2025
Announcing the Release of SSMS 22 Preview 4
Happy Monday! The SSMS team is excited to announce the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Preview 4. Building on feedback from our community and the momentum of previous previews, this release brings new features, important bug fixes, and further improvements to your SSMS experience. What's new in SSMS 22 Preview 4 This release introduces several bug fixes reported via the
27/10/2025
Keep meetings focused and productive with Facilitator in Teams
Hi, Insiders! I’m Melissa Rustemeyer, a Product Manager on the Teams team. I’m excited to announce Facilitator, a new agent experience in Microsoft Teams that will help drive more productive meetings. Keep meetings focused and productive with Facilitator in Teams Facilitator keeps your meetings focused, organized, and action-oriented by surfacing the agenda, tracking progress, and capturing key highlights in real time. With a conversational interface, meeting participants can ...
27/10/2025
Microsoft Azure at KubeCon North America 2025 | Atlanta, GA - Nov 10-13
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is back - this time in Atlanta, Georgia, and the excitement is real. Whether you’re a developer, operator, architect, or just Kubernetes-curious, Microsoft Azure is showing up with a packed agenda, hands-on demos, and plenty of ways to connect and learn with our team of experts. Read on for all the ways you can connect with our team! Kick off with Azure Day with Kubernetes (Nov 10) Before the main conference even starts, joi...
27/10/2025
Pumpkin panic: Your crash course in spooky prep with Microsoft Copilot
Hi, Insiders! Halloween is just around the corner, and while you probably have your costume all picked out, there may still be a few more items on your to-do list. Whether you’re looking to win your neighborhood’s pumpkin decorating contest or wow party guests with an on-theme dessert, Microsoft Copilot has plenty of advice to dish out. And if you’re still not sure how to dress for the occasion, check out our blog on
27/10/2025
How to Control Agent Sharing in Copilot Studio Lite (Agent Builder)
IT admins and business leaders have been asking for this for a long time: real sharing controls for Copilot agents. With the evolution from Agent Builder to Copilot Studio Lite, Microsoft has introduced a feature that gives organizations the guardrails they need to keep agent experiences secure.
27/10/2025
Persistent Version Store (PVS) can cause fluctuations in size of an Azure SQL DB
Issue We recently received an end user case where the customer complained of fluctuations in size of an Azure SQL DB. Error The cx noticed this on their Azure Portal Monitoring screen, the same is shared below: Root Cause We investigated the issue and explained the customer that during the issue timeframe they had a few Long running Sessions in their Azure SQL DB. The Long...
27/10/2025
Windows 365: How to choose the best connection method for your team
Windows 365 delivers Cloud PCs, a complete and secure Windows experience hosted in the Microsoft Cloud that are accessible on any device. Employees, whether full-time, contractors, shift workers, or seasonal staff, can access their personalized Windows apps, settings, desktop, and data from anywhere. This kind of flexibility is part of the beauty of Windows 365 — but with multiple connection options, you might wonder: Which one should I use? Don’t worry, we’ve got you ...
27/10/2025
Introducing Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is the AI built for work - and work rarely happens alone, instead our best work often results from collaboration. Today we’re introducing Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot: a simple, secure way to bring your co-workers into your Copilot conversations, turning individual AI chats into group AI chats in Microsoft Teams. Now, the same Copilot you use for individual work supports group work as well. This new capability builds on our investments in <...
27/10/2025
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Software Reservations Now Available
What's New After careful collaboration with Red Hat, we've updated our RHEL pay-as-you-go billing meters and reservation pricing to align with Red Hat's latest pricing model. These updates address previous billing meter issues and ensure an accurate, transparent experience for our cus...
27/10/2025
Mastering Postgres_FDW: Setup, optimize performance and avoid Common Pitfalls
Foreign Data Wrappers (FDWs) are one of PostgreSQL’s most powerful features, enabling seamless access to remote databases as if they were local. Among these FDW options, Postgres_FDW stands out for connecting PostgreSQL instances across servers. But with great power comes complexity —especially when dealing with large datasets or complex distributed queries. In this post, we’ll cover how to set up Postgres_FDW, best practices for performance, and troubleshooting tips for c...
27/10/2025
Unlock Savings with Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan
Introduction As organizations scale their use of Microsoft Copilot Studio from building custom agents to integrating with Dynamics 365, cost predictability and optimization becomes critical. To help you plan confidently and save more, we’re introducing Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan (P3)*, a simple, one‑year plan that delivers volume discounts and automatic billing, so your team can focus on outcomes, not invoices. What is Copilot...
27/10/2025
Cloud shadows: How attackers exploit Azure’s elasticity for stealth and scale
Threats like password spray or adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) are routine and too easily overlooked in an endless stream of security alerts. But what if these routine threats are only a small part of a much deeper, more sophisticated attack? Since June 2025, Microsoft Defender Experts has been closely monitoring a sophisticated and continuously evolving attack campaign targeting poorly managed Azure cloud environments. What sets these threats apart is their use of Azure’s elasticity an...
27/10/2025
10 Python One-Liners for Generating Time Series Features
Time series data normally requires an in-depth understanding in order to build effective and insightful forecasting models.
27/10/2025
Phi-4: Small Language Models That Pack a Punch
What Are Small Language Models, and Why Should You Care? If you've been following AI development, you can probably recall "bigger is better" being the mantra for years. GPT-3.5 was 175 billion parameters, GPT-4 is even larger, and everyone seemed to be in an arms race to build the biggest model possible. But here's the thing: bigger models are expensive to run, slow to respond, and often overkill for what you actually need. Small Language Models (SLMs) flip this script. These ...
27/10/2025
Azure PostgreSQL Lesson Learned#1:Fix Cannot Execute in a Read-Only Transaction After HA Failover
The issue occurred when the application attempted write operations immediately after an HA failover. The failover caused the primary role to switch, but the client continued connecting to the old primary (now standby), which is in read-only mode. Symptoms Application writes failures during transactions Errors indicating read-only mode Example error: ERROR: cannot execute %s...
27/10/2025
Lesson Learned#1:Fix Cannot Execute in a Read-Only Transaction on Azure PostgreSQL After HA Failover
Symptoms Application writes failures during transactions Errors indicating read-only mode Example error: ERROR: cannot execute %s in a read-only transaction Root Cause The root cause was a DNS resolution mismatch after the HA failover. When the primary server role shifted to the standby instance, the private IP address changed<...
27/10/2025
Lesson Learned #1:“Cannot Execute in a Read-Only Transaction” on Azure PostgreSQL After HA Failover
Symptoms Application writes failures during transactions Errors indicating read-only mode Example error: ERROR: cannot execute %s in a read-only transaction Root Cause The root cause was a DNS resolution mismatch after the HA failover. When the primary server role shifted to the standby instance, the private IP address changed<...
27/10/2025
Ollama on HTTPS for SQL Server
Here is a quick procedure to deploy an Ubuntu container with Ollama and expose its API over HTTPS. The goal is to allow a fast deployment, even for those unfamiliar with Docker or Language Models, making it easy to set up an offline platform for generating embeddings and using Small Language Models This is particularly useful when testing SQL Server 2025 for fully on-premises environment use cases, since SQL Server only allows access to HTTPS endpoints. However, HTTP remains ope...
27/10/2025
Implementing Security Headers in Azure App Service and Azure Container Apps
Why Security Headers Matter? Security headers are an essential part of web application security. They help protect against common vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking, and data exposure. By configuring these headers, you instruct browsers on how to handle your content securely. Azure platform does not automatically inject these headers, so developers must configure them at the application level or through middleware. Commo...
27/10/2025
How to Build an Agentic Decision-Tree RAG System with Intelligent Query Routing, Self-Checking, and Iterative Refinement?
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that goes beyond simple question answering. We design it to intelligently route queries to the right knowledge sources, perform self-checks to assess answer quality, and iteratively refine responses for improved accuracy. We implement the entire system using open-source tools like FAISS, SentenceTransformers, and […] The post
27/10/2025
Meet ‘kvcached’: A Machine Learning Library to Enable Virtualized, Elastic KV Cache for LLM Serving on Shared GPUs
Large language model serving often wastes GPU memory because engines pre-reserve large static KV cache regions per model, even when requests are bursty or idle. Meet ‘kvcached‘, a library to enable virtualized, elastic KV cache for LLM serving on shared GPUs. kvcached has been developed by a research from Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab (University of […] The post
26/10/2025
5 Common LLM Parameters Explained with Examples
Large language models (LLMs) offer several parameters that let you fine-tune their behavior and control how they generate responses. If a model isn’t producing the desired output, the issue often lies in how these parameters are configured. In this tutorial, we’ll explore some of the most commonly used ones — max_completion_tokens, temperature, top_p, presence_penalty, and […] The post
26/10/2025
How to Build, Train, and Compare Multiple Reinforcement Learning Agents in a Custom Trading Environment Using Stable-Baselines3
In this tutorial, we explore advanced applications of Stable-Baselines3 in reinforcement learning. We design a fully functional, custom trading environment, integrate multiple algorithms such as PPO and A2C, and develop our own training callbacks for performance tracking. As we progress, we train, evaluate, and visualize agent performance to compare algorithmic efficiency, learning curves, and decision […] The post
26/10/2025
A New AI Research from Anthropic and Thinking Machines Lab Stress Tests Model Specs and Reveal Character Differences among Language Models
AI companies use model specifications to define target behaviors during training and evaluation. Do current specs state the intended behaviors with enough precision, and do frontier models exhibit distinct behavioral profiles under the same spec? A team of researchers from Anthropic, Thinking Machines Lab and Constellation present a systematic method that stress tests model specs […] The post
26/10/2025
How to Build a Fully Functional Computer-Use Agent that Thinks, Plans, and Executes Virtual Actions Using Local AI Models
In this tutorial, we build an advanced computer-use agent from scratch that can reason, plan, and perform virtual actions using a local open-weight model. We create a miniature simulated desktop, equip it with a tool interface, and design an intelligent agent that can analyze its environment, decide on actions like clicking or typing, and execute […] The post
25/10/2025
Google vs OpenAI vs Anthropic: The Agentic AI Arms Race Breakdown
In this article we will analyze how Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are productizing ‘agentic’ capabilities across computer-use control, tool/function calling, orchestration, governance, and enterprise packaging. Agent platforms, not only models, now define competitive advantage. Google is aligning Gemini 2.0 with an enterprise control plane on Vertex AI and a new ‘front door’ called Gemini Enterprise. […] The post
25/10/2025
Leveraging AI to improve focus and better engage with employees
A new report from the Potential Project—discussed this week in the
24/10/2025
Unlocking M&A Success: Human Insights and Tech Transformation for Microsoft Partners
Understanding the intricacies of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is more crucial than ever—especially for Microsoft partners navigating the competitive tech ecosystem. In the latest podcast episode of "Unlocking M&A Success," hosts A...
24/10/2025
Liquid AI’s LFM2-VL-3B Brings a 3B Parameter Vision Language Model (VLM) to Edge-Class Devices
Liquid AI released LFM2-VL-3B, a 3B parameter vision language model for image text to text tasks. It extends the LFM2-VL family beyond the 450M and 1.6B variants. The model targets higher accuracy while preserving the speed profile of the LFM2 architecture. It is available on LEAP and Hugging Face under the LFM Open License v1.0. […] The post
24/10/2025
Sign up for Microsoft Partner Incentives performance measurement reports
As part of a larger push to empower you to deliver exceptional business outcomes, we've introduced incentives performance measurement reports, available through email. Delivered during the first week of every month, these reports include presales and post-sales partner performance measurements and earning cap status so you can get essential insights into your engagements across hero investments. These hero investments inc...
24/10/2025
Partner Blog | Building Frontier Firms: How partner skilling accelerates innovation and growth
For partners, skilling is more than a support function. It’s the economic engine helping you grow, compete, and differentiate your business in the age of AI.
24/10/2025
A new way to collaborate with Copilot in Teams chats
Hi, Insiders! I’m Nicole Toussaint, and I’m a Product Manager on the Teams team. I’m excited to share a new way to leverage Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams group chats to streamline workflows and collaboration. A new way to collaborate with Copilot in Teams chats Many conversations with Copilot happen in a private, one-on-one setting. With this new capability, you will now also be able to add Copilot to Teams chats and engage with it in a group setting. You c...
24/10/2025
An Implementation on Building Advanced Multi-Endpoint Machine Learning APIs with LitServe: Batching, Streaming, Caching, and Local Inference
In this tutorial, we explore LitServe, a lightweight and powerful serving framework that allows us to deploy machine learning models as APIs with minimal effort. We build and test multiple endpoints that demonstrate real-world functionalities such as text generation, batching, streaming, multi-task processing, and caching, all running locally without relying on external APIs. By the […] The post
24/10/2025
A CISO's Guide to Securing AI - Securing AI for Federal, DIB, and DoW Entities
Why AI Security Is Mission-Critical Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping federal missions, defense operations, and critical infrastructure. From intelligence analysis to logistics and cyber defense, AI’s transformative power is undeniable. Yet, with great power comes great responsibility and risk. As a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in the federal space, Defense Industrial Base (DIB), or Department of War (DoW), you are tasked not only with enabling inn...
24/10/2025
Scaling Azure Functions Python with orjson
Introduction Delivering high-performance serverless applications is at the heart of Azure Functions. Azure Functions serves countless customer workloads across scenarios like APIs, event processing, and automation. To ensure great performance at scale, we’re always looking for opportunities to reduce latency and increase throughput — especially for common operations like JSON serialization and deserialization. To that end, we’ve introduced support for
24/10/2025
ICYMI Microsoft Partner Blog | Transforming customer engagement into growth with Copilot and agentic AI
Microsoft partners are at the center of that transformation.AI transformation doesn’t happen in a single project.It’s a sustained journey that moves customers from pilots to full-scale adoption and long-term value.
24/10/2025
Policy-based removal of pre-installed Microsoft Store apps
By using a policy to remove preinstalled Microsoft Store apps, you can:You can use Microsoft Intune to configure devices with a settings catalog policy or a CSP policy.With this new app management policy, you can efficiently deploy changes to the default Microsoft Store apps available on your users’ devices.
24/10/2025
Title Plan Update – October 24, 2025
🗂️ October 24, 2025 Title Plan Now Available Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version. 📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan. This means each update may include fewer...
24/10/2025
SharePoint Embedded guide for software companies: success factors, positioning & key insights
Welcome to the definitive Q&A guide for software development companies exploring SharePoint Embedded for their SaaS applications.This blog series addresses the most frequently asked questions from our thriving software company community, drawing from real-world implementations across partner organizations spanning financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology sectors.Q: What are the key success factors I should focus on as a software company using SharePoint Embedded?
24/10/2025
The Complete Guide to Pydantic for Python Developers
Python's flexibility with data types is convenient when coding, but it can lead to runtime errors when your code receives unexpected data formats.
24/10/2025
Subscription Governance: The Relationships and Dependencies Involved with Managing Subscriptions
Relationships and dependencies between Entra ID, Billing Accounts and SubscriptionsIn cloud governance, the relationships between Entra ID, Billing Accounts, Subscriptions, and User Permissions are frequently misunderstood even by experienced practitioners.As the roles within the billing account provide the permissions to create subscriptions it is important to understand who can create these billing accounts.
24/10/2025
Salesforce AI Research Introduces WALT (Web Agents that Learn Tools): Enabling LLM agents to Automatically Discover Reusable Tools from Any Website
A team of Salesforce AI researchers introduced WALT (Web Agents that Learn Tools), a framework that reverse-engineers latent website functionality into reusable invocable tools. It reframes browser automation around callable tools rather than long chains of clicks. Agents then call operations such as search, filter, sort, post_comment, and create_listing. This reduces dependence on large language […] The post
24/10/2025
AI Toolkit for VS Code October Update
We're thrilled to bring you the October update for the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code! This month marks another major milestone with version 0.24.0, introducing groundbreaking GitHub Copilot Tools Integration and additional user experience enhancements that make AI-powered development more seamless than ever. Let's dive into what's new! 👇
24/10/2025
Endpoints and AI strategy: Lessons of the Microsoft Work Trend Index 2025
Each year, the Microsoft Work Trend Index brings together one of the most comprehensive views of how work is changing. The 2025 report draws on survey data from 31,000 people across 31 countries, LinkedIn labor m...
24/10/2025
Azure Managed Redis at Ignite 2025: pre-day, session, and booth
Microsoft Ignite 2025 is almost here!You’ll see live demos and learn how to build and scale intelligent applications using Azure Managed Redis for caching and modern AI workloads, architect your applications for performance, reliability, and scale with geo-replication, and migrate to Azure Managed Redis.Azure Managed Redis with Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Agent Framework let developers build adaptive, context-aware AI systems.
23/10/2025
Google AI Introduces FLAME Approach: A One-Step Active Learning that Selects the Most Informative Samples for Training and Makes a Model Specialization Super Fast
Open vocabulary object detectors answer text queries with boxes. In remote sensing, zero shot performance drops because classes are fine grained and visual context is unusual. Google Research team proposess FLAME, a one step active learning strategy that rides on a strong open vocabulary detector and adds a tiny refiner that you can train in […] The post
23/10/2025
Make the best decisions during open enrollment with Microsoft Copilot
Hi, Insiders! If you live and work in the United States, the yearly benefits’ open enrollment period can be a complicated, confusing, and intimidating time for anyone. You need to evaluate whether your current benefits meet your (and your family’s) needs now and in the future – and if not, make the necessary adjustments. That often means selecting a new plan from a multitude of options and combing through piles of paperwork. To navigate this tricky period, lean on Microsoft Copilot! D...
23/10/2025
Implementing MCP Remote Servers with Azure Function App and GitHub Copilot Integration
Introduction In the evolving landscape of AI-driven applications, the ability to seamlessly connect large language models (LLMs) with external tools and data sources is becoming a cornerstone of intelligent system design. Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a specification that enables AI agents to discover and invoke tools dynamically, based on context. While MCP is powerful, implementing it fro...
23/10/2025
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available for evaluation
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed.The 25.10 OS Retail Eval release includes quality and underlying build system updates.For more information on Azure Sphere OS feeds and setting up an evaluation device group, see Azure Sphere OS feeds and Set up devices for OS evaluation.
23/10/2025
Partner Blog | Highlights from the Migrate & Modernize Summit: Accelerating customer transformation through AI
Modernization is one of the biggest technology opportunities of our time. Across industries, organizations are looking to move faster, operate more securely, and scale innovation. But legacy systems, technical debt, and fragmented infrastructure continue to slow progress. IDC reports that more than 37% of application portfolios require modernization today, and that need will remain high for years to come. It’s a challenge that...
23/10/2025
UltraCUA: A Foundation Computer-Use Agents Model that Bridges the Gap between General-Purpose GUI Agents and Specialized API-based Agents
Computer-use agents have been limited to primitives. They click, they type, they scroll. Long action chains amplify grounding errors and waste steps. Apple Researchers introduce UltraCUA, a foundation model that builds an hybrid action space that lets an agent interleave low level GUI actions with high level programmatic tool calls. The model chooses the cheaper […] The post
23/10/2025
Viva Engage Festival 2025: Real Stories. Real Impact. Real Community
Join us on November 12 for the Viva Engage Festival 2025, a free, fully virtual global event hosted by SWOOP Analytics that brings together the Viva Engage community to connect, share, and learn from one another’s experiences. This practitioner-led festival showcases real-world success stories, leadership engagement strategies, and community-building...
23/10/2025
Optimize Azure Local using insights from a Well-Architected Review Assessment
Why Azure Local? Azure Local extends Azure to customer-owned infrastructure, enabling local execution of modern and traditional applications across distributed on-premises or edge locations. Azure Local can help accelerate cloud and AI innovation by seamlessly delivering new applications, workloads, and services. Providing the ability to deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines (...
23/10/2025
A Coding Guide to Build a Fully Functional Multi-Agent Marketplace Using uAgent
In this tutorial, we explore how to build a small yet functional multi-agent system using the uAgents framework. We set up three agents — Directory, Seller, and Buyer — that communicate via well-defined message protocols to simulate a real-world marketplace interaction. We design message schemas, define agent behaviors, and implement request-response cycles to demonstrate discovery, […] The post
23/10/2025
Announcing General Availability: Unified identity and endpoint sensor
This milestone streamlines the deployment of on-premises identity security by unifying our endpoint and identity protection into a single sensor, pre-installed and ready for activation on Domain Controllers running Windows Server 2019 or newer.Like many security solutions, Microsoft Defender relies on sensors to gain visibility into the endpoints and on-premises identity infrastructure within your environment.Security is a core focus at Ignite this year, with the Security Forum on November 17th, deep dive technical sessions, theater talks, and hands-on labs designed for security leaders and practitioners
23/10/2025
The 17th Anniversary of Small Basic
October 23, 2025 is our special day for Small Basic. The newest version of my program is SFF730-14. Have fun and Happy 17th Birthday, Small Basic!!
23/10/2025
VS Code Dev Days: How Global MVPs and Communities Brought AI-Powered Coding to Life
The VS Code Dev Days series was a global celebration of AI, community, and learning. Designed to reintroduce developers to Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot, this pilot p...
23/10/2025
The Machine Learning Practitioner’s Guide to Fine-Tuning Language Models
Fine-tuning has become much more accessible in 2024–2025, with parameter-efficient methods letting even 70B+ parameter models run on consumer GPUs.
23/10/2025
Scaling Adoption: Five Lessons from 90+ No-Code Agent Early Adopters
In the SharePoint AI Early Access Program, encompassing 90+ early adopter organizations piloting and rolling out agents built in SharePoint broadly, one pattern stands out: the technology is powerful, but adoption only scales when people discover where agents fit into their work, feel supported as they experiment, and build on early wins so adoption deepens into new habits that change how work gets done.Creating an "RFP response agent" from SharePoint helps proposal writers craft quality responses in a fraction of the time.4. Refine and iterate instructions for continuous improvement
23/10/2025
Context-Aware RAG System with Azure AI Search to Cut Token Costs and Boost Accuracy
Purpose: Transforms messy enterprise data (wikis, PDFs, transcripts, repos, images) into structured, model-friendly chunks for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).To bring this architecture to life, let’s walk through a simple example of how documents can be chunked, embedded, stored in Azure AI Search, and then queried to generate accurate, cost-efficient answers.We convert each chunk into an embedding vector and push it to an Azure AI Search index.
23/10/2025
Transform Your AI Applications with Local LLM Deployment
Enter the world of Edge AI deployment with Microsoft's Foundry Local a game-changing approach that brings enterprise-grade LLM capabilities to local hardware while maintaining full OpenAI API compatibility.The Edge AI for Beginners https://aka.ms/edgeai-for-beginners curriculum provides AI Engineers and Developers with comprehensive, hands-on training to master local LLM deployment.In this post, we'll explore why Edge AI deployment represents the future of AI applications, dive deep into Foundry Local's capabilities across multiple frameworks, and show you exactly how to implement local LLM solutions that deliver both technical excellence and significant business value.
23/10/2025
Anthrogen Introduces Odyssey: A 102B Parameter Protein Language Model that Replaces Attention with Consensus and Trains with Discrete Diffusion
Anthrogen has introduced Odyssey, a family of protein language models for sequence and structure generation, protein editing, and conditional design.The production models range from 1.2B to 102B parameters.The Anthrogen’s research team positions Odyssey as a frontier, multimodal model for real protein design workloads, and notes that an API is in early access.
23/10/2025
PokeeResearch-7B: An Open 7B Deep-Research Agent Trained with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF) and a Robust Reasoning Scaffold
Pokee AI has open sourced PokeeResearch-7B, a 7B parameter deep research agent that executes full research loops, decomposes a query, issues search and read calls, verifies candidate answers, then synthesizes multiple research threads into a final response. The agent runs a research and verification loop. In research, it calls external tools for web search and […] The post
23/10/2025
How to Design a Fully Functional Enterprise AI Assistant with Retrieval Augmentation and Policy Guardrails Using Open Source AI Models
In this tutorial, we explore how we can build a compact yet powerful Enterprise AI assistant that runs effortlessly on Colab. We start by integrating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using FAISS for document retrieval and FLAN-T5 for text generation, both fully open-source and free. As we progress, we embed enterprise policies such as data redaction, access […] The post
23/10/2025
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Migration & Onboarding
Blocking Malicious File Downloads in SharePoint and OneDriveA common assumption during onboarding is that Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protections only apply to email.Once you have established protection against malicious files, the next step is ensuring your tenant is correctly set up to create and manage threat policies.