30 new posts across 15 Microsoft websites since Tuesday, December 09, 2025
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 (3)
- Exchange Team Blog (2)
- SharePoint Blog (1)
- Microsoft 365 Insider Blog (2)
- Microsoft Edge Blog (1)
- Microsoft Azure Blog (4)
- Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (1)
- ITOps Talk Blog (2)
- Microsoft Intune Blog (1)
- System Center Blog (1)
- Microsoft Security Blog (5)
- Power BI Blog (1)
- Microsoft Viva Blog (1)
- Skype for Business Blog (1)
- Azure AI Foundry Blog (4)
Copilot for Microsoft 365
New! Centralized Agent Dashboard and Enhanced Reporting
Track Adoption Trends and Export Insights with Copilot and Agent Analytics At Ignite 2025, we unveiled key updates to Copilot and Agent Analytics, introducing new features designed to address a critic…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Security and governance innovations for Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents from Ignite 2025
Microsoft 365 Copilot is built on a foundation of trust established through our commitments to protect customer data and the controls we make available directly to customers. We’re excited to share th…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Five Ways to Implement the Great Copilot Journey
Microsoft 365 Copilot brings a new way of working to your organization, but unlocking its full potential takes more than just turning it on. Most users have worked a certain way without AI their entir…
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Exchange Team Blog
Released: December 2025 Exchange Server Security Updates
Microsoft has released Security Updates (SUs) for vulnerabilities found in: Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) Exchange Server 2019 Exchange Server 2016 SUs are available for the following sp…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Using ExcludeFromAllHolds to Remove Holds from Inactive Mailboxes
Retention support for inactive mailboxes is now available in Public Cloud. We’re excited to announce that the rollout for Government Cloud will begin next week. For more details and future milestones,…
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
SharePoint Blog
Extending SharePoint capabilities - Lightning Tools - SharePoint Partner Showcase
We are excited to share a new episode on our partner showcase series focused on SharePoint in Microsoft 365. In this post, we focus on Lightning Tools. In this brief discussion and demonstration, Bret…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Microsoft 365 Insider Blog
Introducing a fresh new look for comments in Word for the web
Hi, Insiders! I’m Tobi Solarin, a Product Manager on the Word team. I’m excited to share our newly updated design for comments in Word for the web. Introducing a fresh new look for comments in Word fo…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Native macOS screen sharing in Teams meetings
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Mario Novoselec, a Principal Product Manager on the Teams team. I’m excited to announce screen and window sharing tailored specifically to macOS that improves the Teams…
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Microsoft Edge Blog
Making complex web apps faster
On the web, speed is everything. The responsiveness of your browser, the time it takes for a web app to appear, and how quickly that app handles user interactions all directly impact your experience a…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Microsoft Azure Blog
Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in the United States
Today, we are sharing progress on our infrastructure expansions across the United States that are supporting the tremendous growth in customer demand for cloud and AI services. The post Microsoft’s co…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Actioning agentic AI: 5 ways to build with news from Microsoft Ignite 2025
Energy at Microsoft Ignite was electric. Over 20,000 attendees gathered in San Francisco, with 200,000 digital participants joining us to explore the future of cloud and AI. The post Actioning agentic…
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Azure Storage innovations: Unlocking the future of data
Whether you are improving the resilience of mission-critical workloads or modernizing legacy systems; Azure Storage has a solution for you. The post Azure Storage innovations: Unlocking the future of …
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Introducing GPT-5.2 in Microsoft Foundry: The new standard for enterprise AI
Discover GPT‑5.2 in Microsoft Foundry—the next standard for enterprise AI. Learn how advanced reasoning, agentic execution, and compliance-ready features empower developers and technical leaders. The …
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
General Availability of SharePoint Framework 1.22 – A Major Refresh of the Build & Tooling Experience
We are excited to announce general availability for the SharePoint Framework 1.22. This time focus is primarily on updating the build toolchain and to address npm audit issues. The post General Availa…
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
ITOps Talk Blog
Deploy and configure an Azure Application Gateway for load balancing and website protection.
Azure Application Gateway provides layer 7 load balancing with integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities, enabling traffic distribution across backend servers while protecting against com…
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Configure a log analytics workspace to collect Window Server Event log, IIS and performance data.
Configuring Azure Monitor with Log Analytics for IIS Servers Azure Monitor combined with Log Analytics provides centralized telemetry collection for performance metrics, event logs, and application lo…
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Microsoft Intune Blog
What’s new in Microsoft Intune: December 2025
Following Microsoft Ignite 2025, I caught up with colleagues and Intune MVPs who made the trip to San Francisco. There was a lot to talk about, but one conversation stood out: When I asked what surpri…
Thursday, December 11, 2025
System Center Blog
System Center 2025 Update Rollup 1 and more
We are excited to announce that System Center 2025 Update Rollup 1 (UR1) is now generally available! This update brings important enhancements and fixes across the System Center suite, with a focus on…
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Microsoft Security Blog
Changing the physics of cyber defense
Cyber defense is evolving. Find out how graph-powered strategies and AI can help organizations detect threats faster and improve security hygiene. The post Changing the physics of cyber defense appear…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Shai-Hulud 2.0: Guidance for detecting, investigating, and defending against the supply chain attack
The Shai‑Hulud 2.0 supply chain attack represents one of the most significant cloud-native ecosystem compromises observed recently. Attackers maliciously modified hundreds of publicly available packag…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Clarity in complexity: New insights for transparent email security
Microsoft’s latest benchmarking report reveals how layered email defenses perform, offering real-world insights to strengthen protection and reduce risk. The post Clarity in complexity: New insights f…
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
From awareness to action: Building a security-first culture for the agentic AI era
The insights gained from Cybersecurity Awareness Month, right through to Microsoft Ignite 2025, demonstrate that security remains a top priority for business leaders. The post From awareness to action…
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Imposter for hire: How fake people can gain very real access
Fake employees are an emerging cybersecurity threat. Learn how they infiltrate organizations and what steps you can take to protect your business. The post Imposter for hire: How fake people can gain …
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Power BI Blog
Drillthrough in Excel now supported for Direct Lake and DirectQuery Models
The previous limitation preventing drillthrough (via Excel’s Show Details feature when using Analyze in Excel) on Direct Lake and DirectQuery semantic model has been removed….
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Microsoft Viva Blog
Research Drop: Reframing AI Friction as a Mastery Challenge to Drive Impact
Research Drop in Brief: More than half of employees say agentic AI integration feels overwhelming and that they are struggling with the pace of change. Employees who lean into friction – navigating n…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Skype for Business Blog
No Skype for Business Server Security Updates for December 2025
Although Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 are now out of support, some customers have purchased the Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 Extended Security Update (ESU). We have therefore decided that unti…
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Azure AI Foundry Blog
Unlocking Efficient and Secure AI for Android with Foundry Local
The ability to run advanced AI models directly on smartphones is transforming the mobile landscape. Foundry Local for Android simplifies the integration of generative AI models, allowing teams to deli…
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
n8n and Foundry IQ for smarter agents and RAG workflows
TL;DR n8n now natively supports Azure AI Search as a verified vector store, enabling you to store, retrieve, and query embeddings directly in your automation workflows. Get semantic hybrid search and …
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Introducing Cohere Rerank 4.0 in Microsoft Foundry
These new retrieval models deliver state-of-the-art accuracy, multilingual coverage across 100+ languages, and breakthrough performance for enterprise search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) s…
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Fine-tuning at Ignite 2025: new models, new tools, new experience
Fine‑tuning isn’t just “better prompts.” It’s how you tailor a foundation model to your domain and tasks to get higher accuracy, lower cost, and faster responses – then run it at scale. As Agents bec…
Thursday, December 11, 2025