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Agent 365: What’s There, What’s Missing
July 16, 2026
Agent 365 provides a unified platform for AI agent governance, identity management, and security oversight....more
DLP Cut from Defender for Cloud Apps – Customers Must Move to Purview DLP
July 16, 2026
Microsoft is retiring a range of data loss prevention features available in Microsoft Defender for...more
Security Copilot: Expanding and Expensive
Updated: July 15, 2026
Security Copilot can help admins using Microsoft 365 management tools to perform security-related tasks faster....more
AI Drives Enterprise Integration
July 10, 2026
To maximize return on AI, organizations need to build new business processes that combine AI...more
Disconnected Operations for Azure Local: More Local, Less Azure
July 4, 2026
Disconnected operations for Azure Local allows customers to deploy Azure Local clusters without a connection...more
Restricted SharePoint Search Limits Copilot Results
Updated: July 1, 2026
Update: Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) in SharePoint Online will retire by Jan. 31, 2027, and...more
Azure SQL Database DTUs: There’s a Better Way
July 1, 2026
The Azure SQL Database DTU model bundles compute, memory, and storage that are easy to...more
Entra ID Tenancy Strategies for Complex Organizations
Updated: June 29, 2026
Entra ID is a core component of Microsoft 365 services, but it has limitations that...more
Find and Secure Local AI Tools with Defender for Endpoint
Updated: June 28, 2026
Local AI tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code on Windows offer powerful capabilities but...more
Entra Cloud Sync Replacing Connect Sync: What to Expect
June 27, 2026
Customers should begin transitioning now from Connect Sync to Cloud Sync, but larger customers won’t...more
Windows Point-in-Time Restore Is Windows, Yesterday
Updated: June 26, 2026
Windows Point-in-Time Restore is a new feature of Windows 11 that should help customers recover more...more
Enterprise Agents at Scale: Control Improves, Costs Follow
June 26, 2026
Enterprise AI agents represent an operating model shift, with implications for governance, costs, and accountability....more
Identity Manager: SP3 Arrives, But Support Still Ends in 2029
Updated: June 22, 2026
Microsoft Identity Manager is set for retirement in 2029, and no direct replacement is expected....more
Agent 365: Microsoft Attempts to Herd Your AI Agents
Updated: June 20, 2026
Microsoft’s Agent 365 seeks to help organizations increase the manageability, security, and compliance of their...more
M365 Copilot Adds Choice (and Risk) with Anthropic’s Claude
Updated: June 12, 2026
Microsoft has partnered with Anthropic, adding its Claude models to Microsoft 365 (M365) Copilot. Claude’s...more
How to Choose Project Plan Subscriptions
Updated: June 1, 2026
Customers with requirements beyond basic project management can select from Project Plan subscription tiers based...more
Available Azure Reservations
Updated: April 10, 2026
Reporting and Analytics Tools for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents
April 7, 2026
Server Application Version Support
March 17, 2026
Chart of Microsoft Purview Pay-as-you-go Services
February 16, 2026
Comparing Azure Virtual Desktop Services
Updated: November 10, 2025
Communication Services Overview
July 3, 2025
Navigating Microsoft’s Copilots
Updated: May 11, 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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Static Web Apps
Static Web Apps provides a managed hosting option for static front ends and lightweight Web...more
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IOT Services and Software
IoT services and software help organizations connect, monitor, secure, and manage large numbers of physical...more
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Chaos Studio
Chaos Studio generates failures and degraded conditions on Azure resources so that development and IT...more
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Azure App Testing
Azure App Testing is a service that combines the Azure Load Testing service and Azure...more
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Power Apps
Power Apps is a visual application development environment for makers (also called citizen developers) to...more
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Power Automate
Power Automate is a visual application development environment for makers to develop simple to moderately...more
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Power Pages
Power Pages allows the creation and hosting of some types of Web sites (typically externally...more
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Application Insights
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Deployment Environments
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Azure Managed Applications
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App Configuration
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Maps
Azure Maps provides geospatial data through rendered maps and APIs.
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Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Database for PostgreSQL is based on community editions of the open-source SQL database product.
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Azure Machine Learning
Machine Learning charges for Azure resources consumed, including compute, storage, networking, model training, inference, and...more
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Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning is Microsoft’s enterprise AI engineering and MLOps platform
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Service Bus
Service Bus is a managed messaging service that enables applications and services to exchange messages...more
Three Smart Guys: Too Big to Flail?
June 11, 2026
· Season - 1 · Episode - 5 · Duration - 45m Microsoft’s Evolving AI Strategy: New Clues from BuildJune 11, 2026
· Season - 5 · Episode - 10 · Duration - 27m Microsoft 365 E7: Ready Or Not, Here It ComesApril 23, 2026
· Season - 5 · Episode - 8 · Duration - 21m
Microsoft Roadmap Update, Dec. 2025
December 10, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
Microsoft Compliance Update 2025
September 24, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
Power BI and Fabric Roadmap: What did I miss and will it help?
November 12, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
Building and Licensing Copilot Agents
August 27, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am PT
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
All Webinars
July 2, 2026
Microsoft Launches Its Own Forward Deployed Engineering Unit, the ‘Frontier Company’
by Mary Jo Foley
June 16, 2026
Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork Gets Model Choice Plus Usage-Based BillingÂ
by Mary Jo Foley
June 5, 2026
Microsoft’s AI Strategy: Platform Control Over Short–Term ROI
by David Berry