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

Learn how the Azure Virtual Machine lifecycle is built to give you access to the most advanced cloud and AI infrastructure.

Run SQL Server on Azure Local. Bring cloud-connected management, disconnected operations, and local AI to your sovereign data environments.

Why this matters The unified experience helps administrators answer critical questions before making classifier changes: What classifiers does the...

Microsoft Advertising is transitioning from the legacy SOAP API to the REST API to provide a more modern and efficient integration experience.  What’s...

Fall is officially here, and with it comes our first quarterly edition of What's New in Microsoft Planner! Each quarter, we'll bring the latest Planner...

Build, run, and debug event-driven AI apps with the new Azure Functions Hosted Skills canvas in GitHub Copilot. Follow a hands-on GitHub digest walkthrough.

More models to choose from in Microsoft Copilot with GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5  

To create a more efficient, streamlined process, renewal and attainment of the Digital Sovereignty specialization is now in Partner Center. Get details.

A behind-the-scenes look at how Surface engineers designed the 12-inch Surface Pro's 5G system to support connectivity across the many ways people work.

The Frontier Partner specialization validates partners who can design, build, deploy, govern, and secure AI agents across the full Microsoft tech stack. Get...

Modern business applications rarely work in isolation. An order exception might need an email, a support case might need a Teams notification, and a...

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

A Microsoft Foundry handover story The infrastructure team has finished the AI landing zone. The Microsoft Foundry project exists. The prompt agent is...

Once a month, the Azure Arc team releases an episode covering a new hybrid and multicloud management scenario. To request a topic or view additional...

Enterprises running large scale AI, Analytic, and High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments need more than just infrastructure. They need to dynamically...

Today, we’re introducing Cohere Embed V5 Pro and Embed V5 Fast in Microsoft Foundry, bringing stronger multimodal retrieval to enterprise search and AI...

A new resource connector links Symphony Host Factory to Azure Compute Fleet, so established Symphony environments can elastically extend into...

AVD host pools are now regional in East US 2 and Central US

Explore what's new for Agent 365 in September 2026.

If you’re leading AI adoption, you may be asking why trained employees aren’t changing how they work. In this post, you’ll learn how to distinguish skill...

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...

Evaluating which phages could help fight drug-resistant infections with Microsoft Discovery.

Teams Phone Agent is an AI-powered calling receptionist that answers incoming calls, helps customers get answers, manage appointments, monitor performance,...

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

AI agents become more useful when they can move beyond conversation and complete real workflows. Playwright Cloud Browsers provides managed, on-demand...

Every so often, IT encounters a new kind of actor inside the enterprise. The pattern is familiar: adoption outpaces governance, inventory lags behind use,...

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Reader Endpoint for Azure Database for MySQL. Read replicas help applications scale read-intensive workloads...

We wanted to discuss how upcoming Exchange Online EWS retirement impacts our hybrid customers and cross-org sharing scenarios.  

Get more done by bringing trusted plugins into the Copilot experiences used every day.

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

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...

Build practical cybersecurity skills to help protect yourself and your environment while preparing for an AI-powered future. Cybersecurity is relevant to...

Table of Contents Introduction 1. What you can assess 2. The five-step workflow Configure Validate Run analysis Visualize results Review & export 3....

Here’s a recap and top Q+A from our September M365 Champions monthly call of 2026. We kicked off the call annoucing a new Champion Stories program to...

In April, I published a set of referential architecture diagrams for Microsoft Purview — Microsoft Purview Referential Architecture Diagrams. They have...

Windows 11, version 26H2 is now available, and Microsoft Intune provides day zero support for validated Windows policy settings in the Settings Catalog. We...

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

As applications grow, so does the database estate behind them. What starts with a handful of databases can become hundreds or thousands of resources spread...

Connect a private Azure DevOps repo as a plugin marketplace in Azure SRE Agent. Add the URL, sign in, and install plugins and skills.

Microsoft is pleased to announce Windows 11, version 26H2, the annual feature update. Version 26H2 shares the same servicing branch and underlying code base...

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Azure Lasv5 and Laosv5 local storage optimized virtual machines, powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC™...

Today, OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol is generally available in Microsoft Foundry. GPT-6.1 Sol is an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, delivering substantial improvements in...

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