20 new posts across 12 Microsoft websites since Tuesday, July 21, 2026
- Copilot Studio Blog (1)
- Skype for Business Blog (2)
- Exchange Team Blog (1)
- Microsoft SharePoint Blog (1)
- Viva Engage Blog (1)
- Power Pages Blog (1)
- Power BI Updates Blog (3)
- Public Sector Blog (1)
- ITOps Talk Blog (3)
- Microsoft Security Blog (2)
- Microsoft Azure Blog (1)
- Microsoft Foundry Blog (3)
Copilot Studio Blog
Extending agentic Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales with MCP
Open by design: Dynamics 365 Sales and first-party agents are extensible through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) AI agents are only as capable as the tools, skills, and information they can easily co . . .
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Skype for Business Blog
Reminder: Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 ESU Program Ends in October 2026
Over the last several weeks we have received several questions about possible extension of the Skype for Business Server 2015/2019 ESU program past October 2026. After all, in our original Skype for B . . .
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Skype for Business Server Hybrid: Prepare for EWS Retirement in Exchange Online
The Exchange team recently announced a phased retirement of Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online, with full retirement on April 1, 2027. See Exchange Online EWS, Your Time is Almost Up for t . . .
Monday, July 20, 2026
Exchange Team Blog
Reminder: Exchange 2016 and 2019 ESU Program Ends in October 2026
Over the last several weeks we have received several questions about possible extension of the Exchange Server 2016/2019 ESU program past October 2026. After all, in our original Exchange 2016/2019 ES . . .
Monday, July 20, 2026
Microsoft SharePoint Blog
Beyond Benchmarks: The Lifecycle of Measuring Agentic Quality in AI Content Management
By Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Spriha Chandrayan, Natasha Gaitonde, Zhen Lei, Reed Pankhurst, Anush Sankaran, Amrit Shandilya, Ryen W. White Organizations put their most important content in OneDrive and Shar . . .
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Viva Engage Blog
Build your own Engage Governance agent
The best governance guidance often comes from real conversations with customers: the questions they ask, the decisions they are working through, and the practices they have already built. And organiza . . .
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Power Pages Blog
Introducing Power Pages Security Agent (Preview): Configure and Secure Your Sites with AI
Securing a Power Pages site often requires configuring authentication, authorization, permissions, and application security settings across multiple experiences. Whether you’re troubleshooting a sign- . . .
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Power BI Updates Blog
Power BI July 2026 Feature Summary
Welcome to the July 2026 Power BI update!This month, we’re introducing new capabilities across reporting, modeling, mobile, and embedded analytics. Highlights include expanded modern visual defaults, . . .
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Bringing Power BI Insights to Every Copilot User
The future of Power BI and Copilot starts by meeting users where they already work. We’re bringing trusted Power BI answers into Microsoft 365 Copilot first, so people can ask questions of governed bu . . .
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Deep dive into modern visual defaults and formatting your entire report (Preview)
Power BI’s modern visual defaults and new Customize theme experience enable report authors to centrally manage colors, typography, visual styling, page settings, and filter pane formatting across an e . . .
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Public Sector Blog
Empowering the Mission at the Edge with Azure Local
Azure Local extends Azure services to customer-controlled locations so mission workloads can run where they are needed—at the tactical edge, or at a forward site. This capability is especially critica . . .
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
ITOps Talk Blog
Some tools and techniques for hardening Windows Server
In this post I go over some tools and techniques exist for hardening Windows Server. As always, apply controls according to the server’s role, test them against representative workloads before product . . .
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Cut Your Azure Blob Storage Bill in Half: A Practical Walkthrough of Object Storage TCO
Hello Folks! If you have ever opened your monthly Azure invoice, stared at the object storage line, and quietly wondered how it grew so much, this one is for you. At the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2 . . .
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Feeding the GPUs: File Storage for AI and Cloud-Native Workloads on Azure
Hello Folks! If you are running AI workloads on Azure, you have probably learned the hard way that the wrong storage choice can leave a rack of very expensive GPUs sitting idle, waiting for data. In t . . .
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Microsoft Security Blog
Email threat landscape: Q2 2026 trends and insights
In this article Tycoon2FA Q2 disruption impact QR code phishing attacks CAPTCHA-gated phishing tactics Malicious payloads Business email compromise Microsoft Teams threats Notable phishing campaigns M . . .
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Real world incident response: Microsoft and AXA XL strengthen cyber resilience
Cyber incidents don’t wait—and effective response can’t either. In the age of AI where cyber incidents unfold at machine speed, having the right partnerships in place becomes paramount. While AI is ex . . .
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Microsoft Azure Blog
AT&T and Microsoft scale trillion-token workloads with Microsoft Foundry and AMD
First-of-its-kind telecom AI deployment Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-sp . . .
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Grounding Copilot Studio Agents with Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ
An employee opens the HR agent and asks, “How much PTO do I accrue each month?” A few minutes later, someone else asks, “Where is the official code of ethics policy?” Those sound like the same problem . . .
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Design the Network Before You Deploy: Best Practices for Microsoft Foundry Standard Agents BYOVNet
Ask any enterprise team standing up Microsoft Foundry in production and you’ll hear the same non-negotiable: the agent can’t run on the open internet. The moment it touches proprietary data, internal . . .
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Choosing the Right Starting Point for Enterprise AI Agents with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry
Choosing the Right Starting Point for Enterprise AI Agents with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry Enterprise AI conversations often begin with a familiar question: Should this agent be built with M . . .
Tuesday, July 21, 2026