Tuesday, July 14, 2026

18 new posts across 9 Microsoft websites since Friday, July 10, 2026

Microsoft Teams Support

New MRCA test for External user meeting join

If you support Microsoft Teams, you’ve probably seen cases where an external user can’t join a meeting and the cause isn’t obvious at first glance. This test helps identify common configuration issues . . .

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Friday, July 10, 2026

Exchange Team Blog

Cross-Tenant Message Recall in Exchange Online

Since we released cloud-based Message Recall in April 2023 (see Cloud-based Message Recall in Exchange Online), we’ve continued to expand where and how recall works – including support for Outlook on . . .

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Friday, July 10, 2026

Power Pages Blog

Native Dataverse Authorization (Public Preview) for Stronger Security in Power Pages

We’re excited to introduce the public preview of Native Dataverse Authorization (Enhanced Authorization) in Power Pages. This release brings a significant advancement in how external user access is se . . .

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

ITOps Talk Blog

Build and Optimize a Data Lakehouse for Unified Data Intelligence

Hello Folks! Welcome back to the ITOpsTalk Blog and the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Summit 2026 series. In this session James Baker and Sai Runtham, both from the Azure Data Lake Storage product te . . .

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Monday, July 13, 2026

Welcome Back to AZ Update

Hello Folks!Welcome Back to AZ Update A few years ago, Antony Bartolo and I launched a simple idea called AZ Update. The goal was to provide a place where IT professionals could quickly understand wha . . .

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Friday, July 10, 2026

Hello Folks! If you have ever stood up a marketplace Ubuntu VM, SSH’d in, layered on your monitoring agent, security tooling, a couple of CA certs, and a hardening script, then captured the result and . . .

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Friday, July 10, 2026

Intune Customer Success

Build a patch strategy for today’s threat pace with Microsoft

AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery and remediation are changing how organizations manage risk. As discussed in Pavan Davuluri’s recent blog, Microsoft is investing across the vulnerability lifecyc . . .

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Azure Virtual Desktop Blog

Enhanced host pool management for Azure Virtual Desktop is now generally available

We’re excited to announce the general availability of enhanced host pool management for Azure Virtual Desktop. Enhanced host pool management includes:

Session host configuration and update Dynamic au . . .

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Microsoft Security Blog

Defending SaaS-based applications against ShinyHunters OAuth abuse

In this article Attack chain overview Improving visibility into Salesforce OAuth abuse Mitigation and protection guidance Learn more In a series of campaigns observed between mid-2025 and mid-2026, Mi . . .

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Monday, July 13, 2026

Microsoft Entra ID security updates: Passkeys are the default authentication method in Entra ID

As identity attacks grow more sophisticated in the AI era, organizations need stronger authentication methods that protect users from phishing, credential theft, and social engineering. To address the . . .

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Monday, July 13, 2026

Securing our future: July 2026 progress report on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative

Security is never finished. That conviction is where the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) started two years ago and continues to guide us today. AI is reshaping cybersecurity. Cyberattackers can discove . . .

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Friday, July 10, 2026

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

In this article A wiper inside a backdoor Backdoor capabilities How GigaWiper was assembled Conclusion: Multiple destructive capabilities consolidated into a single implant Defending against destructi . . .

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Protecting Microsoft at AI speed: How SFI proactively hardens our cloud

AI models have reached a threshold where they exhibit expert-level capabilities in vulnerability discovery, exploit chaining, and proof-of-concept generation. As AI-powered vulnerability discovery mat . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

Microsoft Azure Blog

Frontier models and production agents: Advancing Microsoft Foundry for the agentic era

What’s new today GPT‑5.6 is generally available in Microsoft Foundry, alongside the Asia-Pacific Data Zone, and hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service. AI only creates value when it shows up in real s . . .

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved

In this article Resiliency as a shared responsibility, not a handoff Platform foundations that reflect reality: zones, regions, and sovereignty Azure features and capabilities strengthen resiliency ou . . .

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Wednesday, July 08, 2026

External key management for Azure Managed HSM

Azure Key Vault Managed Hardware Security Module (HSM) provides strong sovereignty over your encryption keys. Keys are generated and stored in a single-tenant, FIPS 140-3 Level 3 HSM that only you con . . .

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Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Microsoft Foundry Blog

Microsoft Foundry Model Deployment Pricing Update

Today, Microsoft Foundry is announcing updated pricing for model deployments in the EU Data Zone and in Regional deployments outside the US, effective September 1, 2026, alongside a new APAC Data Zone . . .

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Thursday, July 09, 2026

Frontier Tuning - A shift from classic fine-tuning

Your AI agents are burning through tokens and budget because they’re relearning your business context on every single task. Frontier Tuning changes that equation. Instead of injecting thousands of con . . .

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Thursday, July 09, 2026