What's New in Microsoft 365 - Friday, August 07, 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot Blog

ICYMI: Partner Blog | From AI curiosity to Copilot adoption in 30 days

Thirty days. Twenty-five users. One clear path to AI. For small and medium-sized businesses, AI is no longer a someday conversation, it’s a right-now decision. SMB customers aren’t asking whether AI . . .

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

Update: Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot

We want to inform the community that the Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot feature described in this post, More control over web grounding with Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot, has . . .

Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Announcing the preview of the Work IQ Developer Tools

Software is shifting from apps built for people to agents that can reason over context and act on someone’s behalf. Microsoft 365 Copilot put that shift in front of hundreds of millions of users, and . . .

Thursday, August 06, 2026

Microsoft SharePoint Blog

What’s New in Copilot in SharePoint: August 2026

Copilot in SharePoint helps you do more with your content — ask questions, run workflows, and create sites, pages, interactive reports, and Office files using natural language. Here’s everything that’ . . .

Thursday, August 06, 2026

Access Blog

Fixes in Microsoft Access – Version 2607 (Build 16.0.20228.20110)

🔍Zoom and display Bug NameIssue FixedMouse event coordinates were wrong while a button was held on a zoomed formOn a zoomed form (any zoom level other than 100%), the X and Y coordinates passed to mou . . .

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

Power BI Updates Blog

Deep dive into conditional formatting for lines and legends

Bring your Power BI reports to life with dynamic conditional formatting for lines and legends that stays consistent and updates automatically as your data changes.

Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Public Sector Blog

City of Raleigh from insights to action: A traffic digital twin, live in six weeks

Raleigh is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, and its residents feel that growth every morning, in traffic. Easing congestion has become a priority the whole city can measure. Und . . .

Tuesday, August 04, 2026

What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot for U.S. Government Customers

Many government organizations are evaluating ways to expand the use of AI while maintaining appropriate security, compliance, and administrative controls. Microsoft 365 Copilot helps employees work wi . . .

Monday, August 03, 2026

ITOps Talk Blog

Zonal Resiliency in Azure: Application-Centric Goals, Recovery Plans, and Drills

Hello Folks If you have ever stared at a multi-tier app in Azure and asked yourself, “Is this actually going to survive a zone outage?”, you are not alone. In session MAIS23 of the Microsoft Azure Inf . . .

Thursday, August 06, 2026

Agentic Migrations and Modernization: How the Azure Migrate Agent Keeps Your Intent Alive End to End

Hello Folks! If you have ever tried to move a few hundred VMs, a pile of databases, and a couple of web apps from on-prem to Azure, you already know the hard part is not the tooling. The hard part is . . .

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

From Alert to Resolved: Building a Self-Healing Azure Platform with SRE Agent

Hello Folks! It’s 3 a.m. Your phone lights up. A critical workload that spans multiple clouds is on fire, ownership is fuzzy, the alert routed to the wrong team first, and now it’s your problem. You s . . .

Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Microsoft Security Blog

Microsoft named a Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)

As organizations adopt AI, they must secure both cloud and AI environments through a unified security control plane as their attack surface expands. Because modern applications and AI workloads are bu . . .

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

From open lures to cloaked gates: How a macOS ClickFix campaign learned to hide

In this article Activity overview How ClickFix works Campaign overview ClickFix moved from open pages to fingerprinting gates The fingerprinting gate Mitigation and protection guidance Indicators of c . . .

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

ChainDrop supply chain compromise: Anatomy of a self-propagating worm

In this article Attack chain overview Mitigation and protection guidance Indicators of compromise (IOC) Microsoft Defender XDR detections Advanced hunting queries Learn more Microsoft Threat Intellige . . .

Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Advance Zero Trust for AI: New tools and guidance to secure AI agents and DevSecOps

The calculus of cybersecurity has changed. AI is reshaping how organizations build, deploy, operate, and defend digital systems. AI-powered development tools, agents, and autonomous workflows are acce . . .

Tuesday, August 04, 2026

128 Seconds to disruption: Microsoft Defender stops ransomware at QNET

In this article What is device isolation? Case study: QNET Attack chain overview MITRE ATT&CK techniques observed References Learn more Microsoft Defender’s attack disruption now includes device isola . . .

Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Microsoft Defender XDR Blog

Monthly News-August 2026

Microsoft DefenderMonthly news - August 2026 Edition This is our monthly “What’s new” blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defender . . .

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

Microsoft Azure Blog

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools

In this article Cloud-native modernization The problem we set out to solve How it works Where we believe we stand apart The results that make it real This is the starting line Microsoft has been named . . .

Thursday, August 06, 2026

Microsoft Foundry Blog

From Distillation to Reinforcement Fine-Tuning: Hill-Climbing in Microsoft Foundry

TL; DR: Hill climbing means improving the deployable model package one measured step at a time across quality, latency, and cost. SFT made this workload cheaper, but did not transfer the teacher’s pla . . .

Thursday, August 06, 2026

Exploring Multi-Agent Workflows with Microsoft Agent Framework

As organizations race to automate decision-making, content generation, analysis, and execution at scale, the future is shifting from isolated AI agents to multi-agent workflows where specialized agent . . .

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

When Does RL Actually Help Fine-Tuning? A Difficulty-Controlled Study on Structured Generation

The uncomfortable question Reinforcement learning is often the finishing move of the modern fine-tuning stack: run SFT first, then add RL (GRPO, PPO, DPO) to squeeze out the last few points. In practi . . .

Wednesday, August 05, 2026