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Investing in a more reliable Microsoft Graph PowerShell experience ↗
We’re focusing Microsoft Graph PowerShell on the platform where we can give you the most reliable, capable, and well-maintained experience: PowerShell 7.x and later. Built on modern .NET, PowerShell 7.x resolves many of the underlying assembly-loading and dependency issues that affect Windows PowerShell 5.x today. Conc…
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Introducing Microsoft 365 G7: Intelligence + Trust for the mission ahead ↗
Microsoft 365 G7 brings AI, Copilot, agent governance, security, and compliance together to help government agencies modernize securely. The post Introducing Microsoft 365 G7: Intelligence + Trust for the mission ahead appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management ↗
Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. Discover how AKS, Azure Arc, and Azure Container Apps help organizations run AI and hybrid workloads at scale. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management appeared first on Mic…
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Protecting organizations from AI-assisted executive impersonation and invoice fraud ↗
Microsoft examines an AI-assisted business email compromise campaign that used executive impersonation and fake invoices to target finance teams with ACH payment fraud. The post Protecting organizations from AI-assisted executive impersonation and invoice fraud appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
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The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROI ↗
This blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization, which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points that can help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment system on Microsoft Foundry. The post The Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governa…
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ESPC 2026 is coming to Amsterdam: Bringing Microsoft and the community together ↗
Join Microsoft at ESPC 2026 in Amsterdam to explore the latest innovations in Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, and AI. The post ESPC 2026 is coming to Amsterdam: Bringing Microsoft and the community together appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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ESPC 2026 is coming to Amsterdam: Bringing Microsoft and the community together ↗
Join Microsoft at ESPC 2026 in Amsterdam to explore the latest innovations in Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, and AI. The post ESPC 2026 is coming to Amsterdam: Bringing Microsoft and the community together appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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Detect and disrupt AI-themed attacks with Microsoft Defender ↗
See how Microsoft Defender detects and disrupts AI-themed phishing, malware, and multi-stage attacks across the attack chain. The post Detect and disrupt AI-themed attacks with Microsoft Defender appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
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The future of infrastructure resiliency starts with modernization ↗
Modernization only succeeds when organizations have confidence that their infrastructure can withstand disruption and continue supporting critical operations. The post The future of infrastructure resiliency starts with modernization appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
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Build apps in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio ↗
Create full-stack business apps through conversation, grounded in your data with app building in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio. The post Build apps in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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Threat matrix: Mapping threats across cloud web applications ↗
Microsoft introduces the Cloud Web Applications Threat Matrix, a MITRE ATT&CK-aligned framework that helps defenders understand, prioritize, and mitigate threats to cloud-hosted web apps and serverless platforms. The post Threat matrix: Mapping threats across cloud web applications appeared first on Microsoft Security …
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Two zones or three? A design framework for zone-resilient Azure workloads ↗
Zone resiliency isn't a single number you apply to a whole workload. The useful question isn't “how many zones?” but “how many zones does each component need to survive the loss of one?” Decide zone patterns component by component, use service-managed zone redundancy wherever it fits, and reserve three-zone designs for…
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Passkey-themed social engineering leads to identity and cloud compromise ↗
Passkey-themed social engineering is being used to compromise identities and enable broader cloud attacks. Learn how threat actors establish MFA persistence, abuse Microsoft Graph for reconnaissance, and access SharePoint, OneDrive, and email data, along with key detection and mitigation guidance. The post Passkey-them…
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Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery ↗
For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems: pursuing multiple hypotheses, validating them against evidence, learning from what does not work, and adapting their approach as new inform…
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How to secure edge AI in customer-owned environments ↗
As AI moves into customer-owned environments, organizations need new ways to verify the systems, software, and AI assets they trust before releasing sensitive data, credentials, and models. The post How to secure edge AI in customer-owned environments appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
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Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment ↗
The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production. The post Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment appeared first on Micros…
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GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry ↗
GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's newest frontier model, begins rolling out today through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability expanding to participating customers over the coming days. The post GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Mi…
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ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion ↗
Invisible Unicode characters popularized for hiding instructions from AI models are now being used to obfuscate words before email filters parse them. The post ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
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PPCC 2026: Bringing AI and your business processes together ↗
Every enterprise runs on business processes, but it's the people that provide judgment, manage exceptions, and often connect systems that were never designed to work together. The post PPCC 2026: Bringing AI and your business processes together appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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PPCC 2026: Bringing AI and your business processes together ↗
Every enterprise runs on business processes, but it's the people that provide judgment, manage exceptions, and often connect systems that were never designed to work together. The post PPCC 2026: Bringing AI and your business processes together appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineering Team scaled hybrid operations with Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop ↗
Learn how Microsoft used Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop to simplify hybrid security operations, improve visibility, and scale globally. The post How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineering Team scaled hybrid operations with Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
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Impersonating IT support: how threat actors turn a remote session into enterprise-wide access ↗
Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a human-operated intrusion campaign that abuses Microsoft Teams external collaboration to impersonate IT support, gain remote access, and deploy a Node.js-based implant. Learn how attackers move from social engineering to lateral movement using legitimate tools, and how Microsoft …
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The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents ↗
AI cost optimization goes beyond model selection. Discover how context engineering in Microsoft Foundry helps lower AI costs by improving knowledge retrieval, tool selection, memory, and agent performance at scale. The post The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents appeared first…
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Behind SPFx Dev Skills: testing what agents know and fixing what they miss ↗
How much guidance does an AI coding agent actually need? See how we used evaluation data to target SPFx knowledge gaps, improving results without wasting tokens on what models already know. The post Behind SPFx Dev Skills: testing what agents know and fixing what they miss appeared first on Microsoft 365 Developer Blog…
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Counterfeit installers to system compromise: Tracking a deceptive software download campaign ↗
An active campaign is impersonating legitimate software vendors to deliver malware through look-alike download pages and regenerated installer archives. Microsoft Defender Experts shares observed attack techniques, Defender XDR detections, indicators of compromise, and practical mitigations to help organizations identi…
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Cybersecurity IR Workshop: The workshop you shouldn’t miss ↗
Cyber resilience starts before a crisis. Gain practical insights from DART to strengthen readiness and response. The post Cybersecurity IR Workshop: The workshop you shouldn’t miss appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
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Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS ↗
Azure Multicloud Interconnect helps simplify private connectivity between Microsoft Azure and AWS, enabling organizations to support multicloud and AI workloads with a more streamlined, cloud-native networking experience. Built on open interoperability standards, it helps reduce operational complexity while providing h…
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Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI ↗
AI is helping organizations meet high expectations as markets change quickly and technology advances at a rapid pace. The post Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
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TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion ↗
Microsoft Threat Intelligence provides analysis of a ClickFix campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA prompts, DLL sideloading, and a reverse tunnel, with detections and hunting guidance. The post TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026 ↗
SPFx 1.24 Beta 3 is now available, React 18 support is coming in 1.24, and a new Copilot Components preview program opens for customers and partners. The post SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – August 2026 appeared first on Microsoft 365 Developer Blog .
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Managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL: Key benefits and trade-offs ↗
Compare managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL across cost, control, security, resilience, scalability, and operational effort. The post Managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL: Key benefits and trade-offs appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
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What’s new in Microsoft Security: August 2026 ↗
This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across their environments. The post What’s new in Microsoft Security: August 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog…
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When AI infrastructure becomes the target: Securing gateways and control points ↗
Microsoft Threat Intelligence examines attacks on exposed AI workloads, including LiteLLM gateway exploitation, credential harvesting, persistence, and cryptomining activity. The post When AI infrastructure becomes the target: Securing gateways and control points appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
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The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost ↗
Microsoft Foundry gives you four levers that act on every request, before a single line of agent logic changes. The post The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
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The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane ↗
Organizations need protection that operates in the gap between discovery and remediation. The post The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
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Microsoft named a Leader in the Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026 ↗
Microsoft is named a visionary leader in the 2026 Frost Radar for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, recognized for unified runtime security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .
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Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms ↗
Cloud-native platforms are becoming the foundation for AI transformation. Discover how Microsoft's Azure application platform helps organizations modernize, innovate, and operate AI-powered applications at scale. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platfor…
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Building Agents for Teams: Managing the noise of collaboration ↗
Most of us are familiar with one-to-one agent chats: private, direct interactions where rules are relatively simple. With only you and the agent, each moment has clear intent. You can ask follow-up questions, pause, or restart without worrying about how each exchange affects anyone else. Collaboration in groups works d…
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Announcing the preview of the Work IQ Developer Tools ↗
Software is shifting from apps built for people to agents that can reason over context and act on someone’s behalf. Microsoft 365 Copilot put that shift in front of hundreds of millions of users, and Work IQ gave agents a production-ready intelligence layer to build on. What’s been missing is the path in between: getti…
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The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed ↗
In yesterday’s earnings call, we shared that Microsoft 365 Copilot has surpassed 30 million paid seats, with net seat adds more than doubling quarter over quarter. The post The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed ↗
In yesterday’s earnings call, we shared that Microsoft 365 Copilot has surpassed 30 million paid seats, with net seat adds more than doubling quarter over quarter. The post The next measure of AI momentum is work transformed appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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Build Once, Run Everywhere: Unified Manifest for Office Add-Ins now Generally Available ↗
Unified manifest support for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook makes it possible for developers to build a single app that works across Microsoft 365 apps, creating a more consistent experience for users and a simpler deployment model for IT admins. The post Build Once, Run Everywhere: Unified Manifest for Office Ad…
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Building Agents for Teams: Turning conversations into outcomes ↗
The Microsoft Teams platform mission is to build the best collaborative platform in the world. We want to make it easy for developers to build agents that participate seamlessly in chats, channels, and meetings, helping teams turn ideas into action in real time. By bringing agents directly into the places where collabo…
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SharePoint Copilot Apps Now in Public Preview: From Intent to Action in Microsoft 365 Copilot ↗
SharePoint Copilot Apps are now in public preview, introducing a new way to bring guided, action-oriented business experiences into Microsoft 365 Copilot. By combining natural language reasoning with structured UX, validation, permissions, and deterministic operations, organizations can help users move from intent to t…
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SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – July 2026 ↗
June celebrates the announcement of upcoming SharePoint Copilot Apps, ships the quality-focused SPFx 1.23.2 release, and shares the roadmap for the AI era - shaped by your feedback. The post SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – July 2026 appeared first on Microsoft 365 Developer Blog .
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Mailbox requirement set 1.16 now available for Outlook add-ins ↗
Mailbox requirement set 1.16 is now generally available for Outlook add-ins. This release reflects our continued investment in closing the gap between COM/VSTO and web add-ins, with a focus on message and information security. Mailbox 1.16 introduces APIs and platform updates that enable your add-in to: Decrypt protect…
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Remote Event Receivers are retiring: move to SharePoint webhooks before July 1, 2027 ↗
Remote Event Receivers in SharePoint Online are retiring. Starting July 1, 2027, all remote event receivers will stop firing events, including those registered using Microsoft Entra applications. The post Remote Event Receivers are retiring: move to SharePoint webhooks before July 1, 2027 appeared first on Microsoft 36…
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Copilot in Excel: Built for the era of Frontier Finance ↗
Plenty of AI tools claim to be built for finance; Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel is proving it in practice. The post Copilot in Excel: Built for the era of Frontier Finance appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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Copilot in Excel: Built for the era of Frontier Finance ↗
Plenty of AI tools claim to be built for finance; Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel is proving it in practice. The post Copilot in Excel: Built for the era of Frontier Finance appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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Copilot Cowork is now generally available ↗
Cowork is the fastest growing feature in the history of our Frontier program, and Cowork has among the highest user satisfaction of any Copilot or agent experience we have shipped. The post Copilot Cowork is now generally available appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog .
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