How Nationwide stays ahead of attackers with Project Perception by Julie van Loef

Nationwide, the world’s largest building society, is among the first organizations to put Microsoft’s new agentic security...

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The Visual Studio Dev/Test Benefit: Freedom to Build, Test, and Experiment in Azure by James Rempt

One of the best parts of a Visual Studio Subscription is discovering benefits that can make your day-to-day development work easier and more cost

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Generally Available: Resource placement in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager by The Azure Updates Team

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Accelerating cross-region Azure disk copying by Martin Merdes

When you want to re-deploy an existing Azure VM in a different region, you must first move or copy all disks of the VM from the source region to the target...

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Pick, manage, and get the most from your models by Rachel Kang

You open the model picker, scroll past a dozen options, and pause. How are these models different? Which one should you actually use? And once you're a

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AI-Enabled Map Production Using Microsoft's MARS Model by Nelson Tam

Maps have long served as the foundation for how organizations understand, navigate, and make decisions about the world.  Yet generating and maintaining...

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Generally Available: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.6 runbooks and Runtime environment by The Azure Updates Team

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Secure AI, web, and private apps with Zero Trust by Sinéad O'Donovan

Explore the latest Microsoft Entra capabilities to secure AI traffic, protect sensitive data, and extend identity-first Zero Trust controls across web and...

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Building and Deploying Microsoft Hosted Agents to Microsoft Teams by Lee Stott

A practical, engineer-to-engineer guide to taking an AI agent from a developer laptop, into Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, and out to end users inside...

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When Compute Sits and Waits: Fixing the Hidden Storage Bottleneck in EDA and… by Pierre Roman

Hello Folks! If you have ever stared at an HPC pipeline and wondered why the queue depth keeps climbing while every CPU graph looks lazy, this session from...

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Prioritize exposure resolution with a new dashboard experience… by Lior Arviv

Cut Through the Noise and Focus on What Matters Most Security teams face a constant challenge: too many findings, too many dashboards, and not enough clarity...

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Introducing GPT-transcribe and GPT-live-transcribe in Microsoft Foundry by Dave Jacobs

A transcription model hears “account number 8-4-7-2” but returns “account number eighty-four seventy-two.” A single error can break a downstream automation...

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Azure IoT Edge 1.6 LTS is now available by John Lian

IoT Edge 1.6 is built on .NET 10, which is an LTS release supported through November 14, 2028. IoT Edge 1.6 is supported for that same window. So if...

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Azure Environment Design: Stop Paying Production Prices for Dev by Sarah Lean

Why "production-like" doesn't mean "production-priced." A practical Azure SKU strategy for Dev and Test that cuts costs without losing architecture.

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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it by Nisarg Upadhyay

This article covers a few common errors when attaching database files to an instance, with some information on how to resolve the issues.

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Maybe I Owe Azure Backup an Apology... by Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn

The most convincing form of technical arrogance is the kind that masquerades as experience. You spend enough years in tech, you accumulate enough scar tissue, and eventually your opinions calcify into something faster than reasoning: reflex. Someone mentions a product, and you already know what you think before they finish the sentence. No deliberate evaluation required...that's just pattern recognition, right?Maybe. But pattern recognition trained on a snapshot of 2021 is not pattern recognitio

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Announcing Public Preview of Autoscale for Azure Event Grid Namespaces by Pritha Das

Today we are pleased to announce the public preview of Autoscale for Azure Event Grid namespaces. With this capability, an Event Grid namespace in the...

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ARGUS: Compliance Infrastructure That Believes Financial Access Is a… by Arjun Ganesh

Guest post by 𝐀𝐫𝐣𝐮𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐡 Winner of Hack for Good category Microsoft Agents League HackathonA refugee family in Germany spends 18 months trying...

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Ragnarök for Windows Server: A Practitioner's Guide to Extended Security Updates by Shannon Eldridge-Kuehn

Every legacy server eventually meets its Ragnarök. It doesn't matter if it's humming away on a rack in a closet, running as a VM on a vSphere or Hyper-V host, sitting in colo, or parked in an Azure subscription nobody's touched since the migration project wrapped. Support ends, the patches stop, and the only thing standing between that server and the wolves is whether you paid Microsoft's toll for a few more years of borrowed time. That toll is called Extended Security Updates, or ESU, and if yo

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Share Azure Monitor Logs to Microsoft Fabric (preview) by Ilana Waitser

Azure Monitor Logs sharing to Microsoft Fabric is now in public preview. In just a few steps, you can share the logs you already send to a Log Analytics...

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Grounded AI That Won't Invent Facts: Building "Tell My Day" with… by Caden Storkamp

Guest post by Caden Storkamp Winner of the Hack for Good Category Microsoft Agents League Hackathon Large language models make things up. For a lot of apps...

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.NET 11 Preview 6 Roundup: ASP.NET Core, MAUI, C#, EF Core and SDK Updates by David Ramel

Microsoft's sixth .NET 11 preview advances async validation, C# unions, cross-platform UI controls, database queries, testing tools, Native AOT and container images.

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SQL Server 2016 Reaches End of Support: A Customer Engineer's Perspective… by Karunakar Kotha

Why This Day Matters July 14, 2026 marks the end of Extended Support for SQL Server 2016. After today, organizations running SQL Server 2016 will no longer...

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Uno Platform 6.6: Native AOT, Vulkan Rendering, MCP Auto Registration and More by Uno Platform Team

Uno Platform 6.6 brings Native AOT compilation across Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows with up to 61% faster startup, opt-in Vulkan rendering with up to 50% frame cost reduction, seamless MCP auto-registration for AI coding agents, implicit XAML namespaces that cut boilerplate, screen-reader support for Skia-rendered apps, and complete IME composition with automatic font fallback.

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OpenAPI Code Generation with Corvus: Typed HTTP Clients by Matthew Adams

Generate strongly-typed HTTP clients from OpenAPI 3.x specs using the Corvus CLI - zero-allocation models, exhaustive response matching, and built-in schema validation with a single dotnet tool command.

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Microsoft Agent Framework Makeover: Claws, Loops and Harnesses by David Ramel

Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.

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VS Code 1.130 Expands Agent Host and Review Tools by David Ramel

Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release advances shared agent sessions, multi-file change review, chat visibility and terminal navigation

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The AI-Native Software Development Lifecycle: A Practical Guide for Developers, Leads, and Architects by Sudhir Mangla

A practical guide to AI-native software development covering coding agents, executable specifications, architecture, testing, security, governance, CI/CD, and production adoption.

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Lessons Learned #546: Maintaining a Local Azure Resource Inventory by Jose M Jurado

I worked on a service request that our customer has an application works repeatedly with the same Azure resources. I guess that it may be useful to maintain...

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Public Preview: Azure DDoS Protection custom policy by The Azure Updates Team

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