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Check allocated versus deallocated status, then inspect disks, public IPs, commitments, and billing dates.

Build an Azure governance hub that inventories your AI estate, routes every model call through an AI gateway, and enforces identity, DLP, and policy.

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Microsoft's September roundup highlights model choice, Copilot-assisted package fixes, pull request exploration and new debugging features.

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By Varun Dhawan,  Matt McFarland, Erdem Tuna from Microsoft PostgreSQL team Azure Database for PostgreSQL support in Database Hub is now in public...

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  Introduction Field engineers operating in remote substations frequently encounter connectivity limitations when evaluating the safety of proposed grid...

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1. An agent needs more than a smarter model Imagine you are building a food-ordering assistant. In its first version, it says, “You might enjoy a burger and...

Today, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing Anthropic’s latest Sonnet model to developers building AI applications and...

A RAG store is often introduced as a vector database. That description is too narrow for a real application. Retrieval needs text and vectors, but ingestion...

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How is artificial intelligence changing cybersecurity and penetration testing? Richard talks to Paula Januszkiewicz about how her team now uses large language models throughout the security workflow, from vulnerability research and data analysis to penetration testing...

Entra SCIM MCP v0.3.0 updates to support changes to the Microsoft Entra SCIM API.

We announced the public preview of Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos in late August. Since then, we have continued to make improvements, fix bugs, and See what’s new in Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos, including effort levels, easier comment resolution, and new audit log events.

What is Jev? Jev is a new AI model from TypeSafe AI, first released in early access on 15 September 2026. TypeSafe describes Jev as its first “System...

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Why evaluation and observability belong together Agent evaluation and observability answer two related questions: Is the agent producing the right...

Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built content in them takes a lot longer. Moving content to anoth

Since January 2026, Microsoft has observed Russian state threat actor Star Blizzard evolve their detection evasion capabilities through large-scale phishing campaigns, the use of accounts on compromised websites, and a novel malware delivery technique, tracked by Microsoft as “RedFlick”.

Strengthen the security foundation for SQL Server workloads on Azure Local with Trusted Launch, Secure Boot, virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM), and...

Introducing auto: a new retrieval reasoning effort mode that recovers 97.6% of the evidence recall of the highest effort level at 46.9% fewer query planning...

Microsoft Fabric and SQL innovations announced at FabCon and SQLCon Barcelona 2026 help organizations build trusted data foundations for AI.

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Introduction As organizations migrate workloads to Microsoft Azure, controlling outbound internet traffic has become an essential part of their cloud security strategy. Organizations need visibility into outbound connections, centralized traffic filtering, application-level access control, and detailed logging to meet security and compliance requirements. Azure Firewall Explicit Proxy provides a way to address these requirements by

When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops. Three databases have no recorded full backup. One backup job failed. Many tools would link the two and call it sol…

Coding agents can write SQL, troubleshoot applications, and reason about data. Useful database work starts with your schema and environment context.  We...

Rethinking connectivity for distributed AI infrastructure AI is changing more than the applications organizations build. It is reshaping where the...

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Discover the latest Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace resources in App Advisor. Learn how software development companies can access Marketplace guidance,...

Explore Microsoft’s latest OpenAPI and JSON Schema improvements across .NET, TypeSpec, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure API Management.

Imagine leaving the office and asking an AI assistant: “Find me a grilled chicken burger combo with a medium Coke at a nearby McDonald’s. Pickup, please....

Fleet operators rarely search with a single kind of question. Sometimes they know exactly what they want: delayed shipments, within a certain radius of a...

  Migrating SQL Server to Azure starts with a simple question: Where should I move my databases, and what will it cost? Compatibility is an...

The real problem isn't WHOIS. It's what WHOIS costs you at scale. Ask any SOC analyst whether WHOIS data is useful and they'll say yes without hesitation....

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a project that started as a simple experiment inside Docker Desktop but quickly evolved into a fully functioning 10‑node Kubernetes cluster. Wit…

A look at the targeted AI taskflows behind these findings, the bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source agent on your own app.

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Introduction Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) can use Sensitive Service Domain Groups to organize websites and other network destinations that...

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Auto-pause and auto-resume are now available in public preview for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Serverless. You can now combine Hyperscale's independent...

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of network security perimeter metrics, a capability that helps administrators monitor network...

Inventory every app registration and service principal, then automate ownership, rotation, and safe disablement with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph.

Higher transaction log throughput and flexible memory address two different resource dimensions, but they follow the same principle: giving customers more...

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Most agents are still waiting in a chat window. They may be capable of classifying an incident, finding the right documentation, or recommending an owner -...

A support engineer hits a fault. Somebody solved the same fault two years ago, wrote down what fixed it, and closed the ticket. The engineer searches, finds...