Compute, Infrastructure, and Systems Management

Microsoft 365 AI Governance Features: A Dog’s Breakfast Updated: November 2, 2026 Aspects of AI governance are addressed by many features across Microsoft 365’s compliance, identity, security,...more Defender for Endpoint Enhanced to Support Linux Desktops October 29, 2026 Linux desktops, increasingly used for developer and user workstations, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux...more AVD Hybrid Extends AVD Outside Azure, with Limits October 28, 2026 AVD Hybrid lets AVD manage access to on-premises desktops hosted on any VM or headless...more Protect Mission-Critical Systems with Selective Response Actions  October 25, 2026 Selective Response Actions, a configuration option for Defender for Endpoint Plan 2, allow organizations to...more How to Apply Azure Reservations and Savings Plans Effectively to Compute Workloads Updated: October 14, 2026 Azure compute is typically the single largest cost category of resources that an organization will...more Microsoft Investing Little on AI in Its Own Management Services October 4, 2026 Although Microsoft promotes AI, including upsells in the form of Copilots, Azure AI, and the...more Broadcom Forces More Changes to Azure VMware Service September 17, 2026 License-included Azure VMware Solution reserved instances will be retired in Aug. 2027, regardless of the...more Demystifying Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: September 4, 2026 Microsoft’s range of Copilots, initially broad and confusing, is narrowing, but remains convoluted. Copilots, like...more Azure Copilot Agents Simplify Azure Operation, Optimization Updated: August 31, 2026 The Azure portal has had a Copilot for more than a year, but it has...more Windows Server Licensing Scenarios Updated: August 23, 2026 The reasons for choosing one edition of Windows Server over another have fundamentally changed over...more Should Your Organization Buy Agent 365? August 21, 2026 Agent 365 brings substantial governance, security, and identity capabilities to agent deployments, but certain organizations...more Disconnected Operations for Azure Local: More Local, Less Azure Updated: August 20, 2026 Disconnected operations for Azure Local allows customers to deploy Azure Local clusters without a connection...more Defender for Endpoint on Windows Receives New Deployment Tool August 18, 2026 A new deployment tool for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint should help organizations standardize on a...more Most Azure Reservation Exchanges End in 2027  August 7, 2026 Most key Azure reservations purchased after Feb. 2027 can no longer be exchanged once purchased....more Agent 365 Not Necessarily Required for Agent Governance July 27, 2026 Agent governance features existed before Agent 365 became available, and they’re still available outside of...more Intune Suite Features Added to Microsoft 365 E5, E3 Ahead of 2026 Price Increases Updated: July 16, 2026 The features of Intune Suite and Intune Plan 2 are being split across—and bundled into—Microsoft...more

Windows Enterprise Rights Flowchart May 1, 2026 Windows client OS edition packaging May 1, 2026 Windows Server Edition Packaging May 1, 2026 Reporting and Analytics Tools for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents April 7, 2026 Server Application Version Support March 17, 2026 Communication Services Overview July 3, 2025 Azure Arc Sample Deployment Updated: October 11, 2024

  Licensing Reference Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server A collection of SA (Software Assurance) benefits specific to core licenses for Windows Server; the...more   Licensing Reference Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux A procedure that allows Red Hat and SUSE Linux customers to apply subscription licenses acquired...more   Licensing Reference Agent 365 Agent 365 provides a central registry of most types of AI agents; a single control...more   Product Reference Azure Support Plans Paid Azure support plans provide both break-fix support and guidance to developers and operations staff...more   Product Reference Azure Communication Services Microsoft will retire Azure Communications Services as a standalone service effective Sept. 30, 2028.   Licensing Reference DocumentDB A managed, MongoDB-compatible document database service with charges based on five meters: compute, storage, high...more   Licensing Reference Confidential Ledger Azure Confidential Ledger is a managed, append-only data store for records whose integrity must be...more   Licensing Reference Fabric Fabric is primarily licensed through a combination of computational capacity-based fees (that can be applied...more   Licensing Reference Azure Local Azure Local, formerly known as Azure Stack HCI, is a Microsoft host OS for hyper-converged...more   Product Reference Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft’s flagship Kubernetes (often abbreviated as “K8s”) offering, provides orchestration (deployment,...more   Licensing Reference Site Recovery Azure Site Recovery is a subscription-based service that helps organizations use Azure infrastructure to establish...more   Licensing Reference Monitor Azure Monitor offers a central platform for organizations to gather, analyze, and act on monitoring...more   Product Reference Container Services in Azure In addition to the company’s flagship Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft offers services that exist...more   Product Reference Azure Container Storage Azure Container Storage (ACS) is a volume management and provisioning service for deploying persistent storage...more   Product Reference Network Security and Management Azure network security and management services enable customers to centrally manage large networks.   Licensing Reference Data Share Azure Data Share is a managed service for distributing data to customers, partners, and other...more

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