Approvers need access to the financial information behind an expense to make accurate approval decisions without leaving the approval experience. Dynamics 365 expense management mobile app will surface relevant financial dimensions directly within expense report approvals in the mobile app.

AKS will now provision and manage a StandardV2 NAT Gateway for clusters using an AKS-managed virtual network. StandardV2 is now the default managed NAT Gateway SKU for new clusters in supported regions when using the managedNATGateway outbound type.

Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the East US 3 Azure region.

Microsoft Dev Box will retire on September 18, 2028. Beginning on September 14, 2026, Microsoft Dev Box will begin the closing-down process.

Azure Deployment Environments will retire on February 22, 2027. Beginning on September 14, 2026, Azure Deployment Environments will begin the closing-down process.

Announcing the general availability of exceptions for Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door. Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect your web applications from common threats and attacks.

This feature enhances excise tax management by allowing multiple excise duty definitions to be associated with a single item and calculated during transactions. Key capabilities include: Assign multiple excise duty configurations to the same inventory item (i.e, item is liable for both plastic and sugar tax).

The integration between Microsoft Agent 365 and Azure API Management is now available in public preview, helping organizations connect centralized governance with runtime enforcement for MCP servers and tools. With this integration, organizations can: Discover Azure API Management gateways and MCP servers in Agent 365, creating a centralized inventory of gateway-managed tools.

Previously, auto-expanding archive mailbox expansion was supported only up to 1.5 TB, after which mailboxes would become inoperative. Archive mailboxes can now automatically expand beyond the 1.5 TB limit, ensuring uninterrupted retention and enabling scalable archive growth as storage thresholds are reached.

Dynamics 365 ERP security administrators can apply additional, agent-specific security restrictions that take effect when a user accesses the ERP through an agent. Administrators define these restrictions using the existing security model — assigning roles, duties, and privileges that apply only to agent-initiated requests, scoped by legal entity — so that a user's agent session can operate with narrower permissions than the same user holds when working directly in the ERP.

Expense Agent can validate submitted expense reports against approval policies written in natural language and provide approvers with guidance during the review process. After an employee submits an expense report, the system evaluates both the overall report and the individual expense lines to detect potential policy violations, suspicious patterns, or situations that might require closer attention.

Expense Agent can identify and handle duplicated expense submissions. Key capabilities include: Enhanced duplicate detection that identifies expenses with matching or highly similar details, such as amount, date, merchant, receipt, or transaction information.

Expense Agent web app now uses dedicated resource assignments for projects to determine which projects are available to each user when they create or manage expense entries. Key capabilities include: You can assign dedicated resources (employees) to the whole project or to the specific task.

Multiparty private offers give Microsoft partners a way to procure third-party cloud and AI solutions for customers through Marketplace. Software companies can expand into new markets by working with partners that bring established customer relationships, while customers rely on their trusted partners to manage their cloud and AI initiatives.

Enables admins to delete both content and containers for departed users at scale thereby keeping your tenant compliant without any manual effort.

Expense Agent supports automated VAT handling for expense reports, which can help simplify tax management and improve reporting accuracy. Key capabilities include: Automatic VAT Calculation: Expense Agent identifies VAT-relevant expense transactions and calculates applicable VAT amounts based on the information in submitted expense reports.

Microsoft OneDrive is introducing presentation mode in the OneDrive iOS app for users on iPad devices. Users select a new Presentation button in the PDF viewer to enter a focused, view-only experience that prevents free gesture scrolling between pages, reducing accidental page changes while presenting without moving the file to another app.

How it works ​ Quick add reuses the existing numpad on the transaction screen, so there is no new input control to learn and no additional space consumed in the transaction grid. ​ The associate enters a full or partial item number on the numpad.

The self-service environment migration feature moves management of an existing finance and operations apps environment from Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services to the Microsoft Power Platform admin center.

SharePoint administrators can use the Inactive files policy in SharePoint Advanced Management to automatically archive files based on when they were last accessed. The public preview is available through PowerShell only.

With this feature, users get an out-of-the-box solution for translation services, so they don't need to bring their own web resources. Service representatives get updated feature usage with more configurations.

Copilot brings agentic video creation to Clipchamp Video Hub. Users can generate, edit, and refine videos from prompts—grounded in explicit documents or implicit WorkIQ knowledge.

Organizations that use self-billing often need to follow supplier-specific invoicing requirements, including unique numbering conventions. With this enhancement, users can define and assign dedicated number series for self-billed purchase invoices on a per-vendor basis.

This feature extends withholding tax capabilities to include employee transactions. The feature supports scenarios where employee-related payments or reimbursements are subject to withholding tax requirements and ensures that you accurately process the transactions in the financial system.

Anyscale on Azure is now Generally Available. Anyscale on Azure is a managed platform for running distributed Python workloads on Ray.

Starting with SQL Server 2025 CU9 and SQL Server 2022 CU27, SQL Server on Linux supports the bulkadmin fixed server role and the ADMINISTER BULK OPERATIONS permission for performing bulk data import operations without requiring users to be members of the sysadmin fixed server role. This capability enables you to use operations such as BULK INSERT and OPENROWSET(BULK...) while following a least-privilege security model.

Beginning September 30, 2027, support for the pod name dimension on the following Azure Monitor platform metrics is retiring, and these metrics are transitioning to aggregate pod counters: Number of pods by phase (kube_pod_status_phase) Number of pods in Ready state (kube_pod_status_ready) After this change: Metric names remain unchanged. Aggregate pod counts remain available.

Quality evaluation now supports on-demand evaluations for case-like custom entities in public preview. Organizations can extend evaluation capabilities beyond the standard case entity to supported custom Dataverse entities that follow a case-like service workflow.

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub will be retired on September 30, 2029. Starting September 30, 2026, new installations will no longer be supported, and no new product releases, features, or enhancements will be made available.

On September 1, 2027 support for Java 8, 11 and 17 will end. Your apps that are hosted on App Service will continue to run, but security updates will no longer be available, and Microsoft will no longer provide customer service for Java 8, 11 and 17.

Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves in Azure SQL Database will retire on October 31, 2027 as support for SGX-enabled DC-series hardware is phased out. Customers should transition to Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) enclaves, a hardware-independent alternative, or consider SQL Server on Confidential VMs.

Running Kubernetes on-premises often means adding a virtualization layer, adapting to unfamiliar infrastructure, or giving up control over the hardware and software your applications depend on. For AI workloads, these tradeoffs can limit access to local data, reduce available compute capacity, and restrict your choice of GPUs, drivers, and runtimes.

Commercial Journeys helps information workers stay on top of their most important work when browsing in Microsoft Edge. Powered by AI, it proactively surfaces unfinished, new, and recurring tasks on the Copilot new tab page- with context-rich cards that explain why each task matters now.

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is now available in Azure Bleu, enabling you to deploy and manage SQL Server workloads in France's sovereign cloud environment while meeting data residency and sovereignty requirements.

Starting October 15, 2026, Search in Microsoft Fabric will return tables from semantic models, lakehouses, and mirrored databases as individual results. Users can search by table name or description, or find a table by an exact column-name match.

Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2) preview brings enterprise-grade long-term retention to PostgreSQL. Backups are taken as physical backups from managed disk snapshots and vaulted in an Azure Backup vault, so protection now extends to servers of up to 32 TB on Premium SSD v1 and up to 64 TB on Premium SSD v2.

Business value Field service work often happens in environments where network quality changes throughout the day. Technicians may move between connected, low-connectivity, intermittent, and offline conditions while still needing the mobile app to remain dependable.

Announcing the Public Preview of IPv6 support for Application Gateway WAF. Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) now supports inspection and enforcement for IPv6 traffic in Public Preview, marking a major step forward in modernizing the platform for dual‑stack environments.

Organizations can automatically calculate employee withholding taxes (WHT) as part of the expense report process. When employees submit expenses that are subject to withholding tax requirements, the system applies the appropriate tax calculations directly within the expense report workflow.

On October 31, 2029, DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series Azure Linux, Windows and Dedicated Host virtual machines will be retired. After that date, they will no longer be available for use or purchase.

The public preview of Microsoft-managed performance monitoring for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines is now available. You can now monitor SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines without building custom collection scripts or correlating telemetry across disconnected tools.

On September 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure retired the Standard_NV12s_v3, Standard_NV12hs_v3, Standard_NV24s_v3, Standard_NV24ms_v3, Standard_NV32ms_v3, and Standard_NV48s_v3 virtual machines (VMs) in the NVv3-series VMs. Any remaining NVv3-series VMs will be set to a deallocated state.

On September 30, 2026, Microsoft Azure retired the Standard_NV4as_v4, Standard_NV4ahs_v4, Standard_NV8as_v4, Standard_NV8ahs_v4, Standard_NV16as_v4, Standard_NV16ahs_v4, Standard_NV32as_v4, and Standard_NV32ahs_v4 virtual machines (VMs) in the NVv4-series VMs. Any remaining NVv4-series VMs will be set to a deallocated state.

The Functions on Azure Container Apps (ACA) V1 will be retired on September 29, 2027. After this date, existing Functions on ACA V1 Apps will stop running and no longer process requests or event-driven triggers.

Business value Organizations can turn upcoming maintenance requirements into executable Field Service work without requiring planners to monitor every asset and create each work order manually. Generating work at a controlled point before it is due gives dispatchers time to secure technicians, skills, parts, and customer access while avoiding an unnecessarily large backlog of work created too far in advance.

Teams running Ubuntu node pools on AKS need to stay current with Ubuntu LTS releases, but each OS transition can introduce package footprint, security, and compatibility concerns. Ubuntu 26.04 support introduces the Ubuntu2604 OS SKU using Ubuntu Minimal as the baseline image, while preserving existing AKS create, update, and node pool workflows.

Discover Azure canvases for GitHub Copilot, interactive shared workspaces that bring Azure tools, dashboards, and guided workflows directly alongside your Copilot conversations. Explore Azure resources, analyze costs, and build hosted skills while keeping progress, controls, and next steps visible and actionable in one workspace.

Business value Technicians do not always record booking completion at the moment work ends. They may update the booking later because of connectivity, customer-facing responsibilities, or end-of-day administration.

The Laosv5 series and Lasv5 storage optimized VMs, based on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor (Turin), are now generally available. Lasv5 and Laosv5 VMs have sizes ranging from 2-160 vCPUs, with 8GiB of memory and 720GB of local NVMe disk capacity per vCPU.

Automatic Zone Placement for VM Scale Sets (Public Preview) enables Azure to automatically select the best availability zones for your scale set based on SKU availability, capacity, and placement requirements. Instead of manually maintaining zone lists for each region, customers can use a consistent configuration across regions while Azure handles zone selection.