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Defender for Identity Improves Delegation with Scoped Access
October 31, 2025
Scoped access, a new Defender feature, offers the ability to constrain which Active Directory domains...more
Entra ID Protects Key Identities with Restricted Management
October 31, 2025
Restricted management administrative units can help organizations improve security and compliance while enhancing logging and auditing. Organizations...more
SharePoint Knowledge Agent: A Boon for Content Management (with Caveats)
October 28, 2025
Knowledge Agent can simplify the challenges of maintaining SharePoint Online document libraries and Web content....more
Demystifying Microsoft’s Copilots
Updated: October 27, 2025
Copilot-branded technologies from Microsoft assist users in completing tasks, but Microsoft overstates ROI. Almost all...more
SQL Server Management Studio Update Will Integrate GitHub Copilot
Updated: October 23, 2025
A new version of SQL Server Management Studio brings the most significant updates to the...more
ESUs Protect Systems Past Support
Updated: October 23, 2025
Customers should subscribe to ESUs for any unsupported Microsoft software they run. Systems without ESUs...more
Understanding Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat in Office Apps
October 20, 2025
M365 Copilot for Office Applications primarily assists individuals but can streamline Office-centric processes for some...more
Understanding Dynamic Membership for Entra ID Groups
Updated: October 19, 2025
Entra ID supports dynamic membership for users and devices in some types of groups. The...more
Understanding Microsoft 365 Groups
Updated: October 19, 2025
Microsoft 365 groups simplify definition of which users can collaborate with each other and the...more
Understanding Entra ID Administrative Units
Updated: October 19, 2025
Entra ID administrative units enable delegated management of users and groups within a single Entra...more
Sentinel Enables AI Agents with MCP Server Preview
October 19, 2025
A new MCP server is available for Microsoft Sentinel, the company’s SIEM, supporting natural language...more
Is Copilot Search the Next Generation of Enterprise Search?
October 13, 2025
Copilot Search is an AI assistant for Microsoft 365 that allows users to search using...more
Windows 11 25H2: Support and a Kill Switch for In-Box Apps
Updated: October 12, 2025
Customers on Windows 11 versions before 24H2 should migrate to the just- released Windows 11...more
Understanding Copilot Studio
Updated: October 12, 2025
Copilot Studio supports generative AI to reduce development effort and give agents advanced capabilities. Agents...more
Conditional Access: How to Make Best Use of It to Secure Microsoft 365
October 11, 2025
Conditional access supports several approaches to keep Microsoft 365 secure by default. Policy templates, default...more
Understanding Copilot for SharePoint
October 7, 2025
Copilot for SharePoint can reduce the effort of managing Web pages but does not offer...more
Communication Services Overview
July 3, 2025
Navigating Microsoft’s Copilots
Updated: May 11, 2025
Available Azure Reservations
Updated: February 16, 2025
Microsoft Defender for Servers Plans
Updated: January 6, 2025
Azure Arc Sample Deployment
Updated: October 11, 2024
Teams Calling Services
October 2, 2023
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Cache for Redis
Roadmap for Cache for Redis, an in-memory caching service that stores copies of application data...more
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Purview Data Governance and Security
Purview Data Governance and Purview Data Security, members of the Microsoft Purview family of compliance...more
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Fabric Overview
Microsoft Fabric is a data and analytics cloud service that simplifies the deployment and use...more
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AI Services
Azure AI Services are a collection of cloud services enabling developers to add specific artificial...more
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Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer is a cloud service that helps query and analyze large-scale data streams,...more
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Azure Machine Learning
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Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs provides a brokering service for streaming data that is compatible with Apache...more
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OneLake
OneLake is the core data management component in Microsoft Fabric. It can host and query...more
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Fabric Data Warehouse
Fabric Data Warehouse, one of the main Fabric experiences, provides a SQL-based database solution where...more
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Fabric Data Factory
Fabric Data Factory, one of the main Fabric experiences, is used for creating data integration...more
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Power BI
Power BI, a part of Microsoft Fabric, is Microsoft’s primary data visualization offering. It contains...more
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Windows 365
Windows 365 offers Microsoft-hosted Windows virtual desktops, which Microsoft calls Cloud PCs, that are used...more
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Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) offers virtualization, storage, and networking for managed VMs using VMware software...more
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Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft’s flagship Kubernetes (often abbreviated as “K8s”) offering, provides orchestration (deployment,...more
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Project Online
Project Online is a cloud service for managing project schedules and resource data, reporting time...more
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Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-based productivity service for organizations featuring chat, search, and image...more
Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates: What You Need to Know
October 29, 2025
· Season - 4 · Episode - 18 · Duration - 22m What’s Happening with Microsoft Exchange?October 17, 2025
· Season - 4 · Episode - 17 · Duration - 47m Enterprise Copilot Adoption: Lessons from the FieldSeptember 8, 2025
· Season - 4 · Episode - 15 · Duration - 31m
Power BI and Fabric Roadmap: What did I miss and will it help?
November 12, 2025
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Microsoft Roadmap Update, Dec. 2025
December 10, 2025
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Microsoft Compliance Update 2025
September 24, 2025
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Building and Licensing Copilot Agents
August 27, 2025
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No Autopilot for Copilot
July 31, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
Microsoft’s AI-Native Applications Strategy
June 19, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
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October 31, 2025
Microsoft Q1 FY’26 earnings: Cloud supply constraints to last through at least June 2026
by Mary Jo Foley
Updated: October 15, 2025
CIO Talk: The Enterprise Semantic Layer: The Missing Link for AI (and Microsoft)?
by Barry Briggs
October 3, 2025
Windows 11 25H2: What’s in It for Enterprises
by Mary Jo Foley