Microsoft Technology Briefing - October 2025

By Martin Moyér October 27, 2025
Microsoft Technology Briefing - October 2025

This month, Microsoft has announced updates across several technical areas. In security, enhancements include the general availability of the Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor and the introduction of ExCyTIn-Bench for evaluating AI performance in cybersecurity. Updates in modern work solutions highlight AI integration in the SharePoint Framework and improvements in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Business applications see new AI agents in Dynamics 365, while Azure updates feature flexible configuration in Azure NetApp Files and support for Ultra Disks in Azure Site Recovery. Additionally, advancements in data and AI solutions include new multimodal tools in Azure AI Foundry and the new Microsoft Agent Framework in public preview. Updates in app innovation solutions include GitHub Copilot enhancements with custom models to improve completion accuracy.

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Summary with key announcements and updates from Microsoft

Security Highlight
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Recent Technical Developments in Microsoft Security

Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor that improves identity defense through better protection and correlation is generally available. The Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 highlights the rise in financially motivated cyberattacks, emphasizing the need for organizations to build resilience. The Microsoft Security Store has been launched to facilitate the discovery and deployment of trusted security solutions. Azure Blob Storage is identified as a target for sophisticated cyberattacks, prompting a focus on hardening customer support tools against threats. Microsoft has also unveiled ExCyTIn-Bench, an open-source tool for evaluating AI performance in cybersecurity.

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Recent Technical Developments in Microsoft Modern Work Solutions

The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap emphasizes AI integration and community-driven development. Microsoft Fabric's Copilot enhances data engineering by allowing natural language interaction with data. New features in Microsoft 365 Copilot include Agent Mode and Copilot Chat Quality Roadmap, improving user productivity. Microsoft Teams introduces threaded conversations for better context management and Copilot-enabled thread summarization. Additionally, support for Office 2016 and 2019 has officially ended, urging users to upgrade. The Microsoft 365 Developer Program is also set to receive new capabilities and enhancements.

Business-Applications Highlight
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Recent Technical Updates in Microsoft Business Applications

Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations will feature improved user license validation with a staged rollout aligned to contract renewals, enhancing user experience and transparency. New AI agents are being introduced in the Record to Report process, reducing manual efforts for finance teams. Additionally, the Dynamics 365 Customer Service now includes an agent activity feed for monitoring AI agents, and sensitive data redaction has been implemented for voice AI agents. Furthermore, integration between Dynamics 365 Field Service and Outlook/Teams is now generally available, streamlining scheduling for technicians.

Infrastructure Highlight
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Recent Technical Developments in Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure

Azure NetApp Files now offers a flexible service level that allows independent configuration of storage capacity and throughput. Azure Site Recovery has added support for Ultra Disks, enabling efficient replication and failover. The Azure Resource Manager has enhanced integration with Azure Monitor Metrics for improved monitoring. Additionally, Microsoft introduced near-zero downtime scaling for HA-enabled Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The Azure VMware Solution AV36 node type is set to retire on June 30, 2028, though current Reserved Instance terms remain unaffected.

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Recent Technical Developments in Microsoft Data and AI Solutions

Grok 4 is now available in Azure AI Foundry, providing advanced reasoning capabilities. The public preview of the Microsoft Agent Framework simplifies the development of multi-agent systems. Azure AI Foundry has launched new multimodal tools, including OpenAI GPT-image-1-mini and GPT-realtime-mini, enhancing creative capabilities. The Eventhouse Endpoint for Lakehouse allows for real-time insights with improved query performance, while OneLake APIs facilitate seamless integration with existing applications. Additionally, Fabric Data Engineering Workloads now support Managed Private Endpoints for secure connections to on-premises data sources.

Digital-App-Innovation Highlight
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Recent Technical Updates in Microsoft Digital App Innovation

The September 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) introduces enhancements including a fully integrated Profiler Agent for improved performance analysis, and a new capability for Microsoft Dev Box that simplifies setup by allowing platform engineers to specify images directly. Additionally, Visual Studio is launching Planning in Public Preview, enabling structured prompts for managing larger projects effectively. GitHub Copilot has also been enhanced with custom models to improve completion accuracy and a new agent mode for better workflow integration.

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Recent Technical Developments in Microsoft & Industry Solutions

The Global Secure Access initiative aims to enhance secure access to corporate resources while improving user experience. Windows Hotpatch is being introduced to streamline security updates without requiring system reboots, minimizing disruption. Microsoft Learn is refreshing its certification offerings to better align with the increasing demand for AI skills across industries. The Dragon Copilot AI tool is being showcased for its role in supporting clinical teams at HLTH 2025. Additionally, Vuln.AI is being deployed for advanced vulnerability management, addressing the complexity of managing numerous devices and vulnerabilities efficiently.

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Upcoming Microsoft Events

Don't miss GitHub Universe 2025, where developers will celebrate AI-powered innovation. Join the Microsoft Security Summit Sweden to learn about embedding AI in cybersecurity strategies. Experience hands-on learning at the Microsoft Copilot Connections series, focusing on inclusivity and productivity. Prepare for Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco, featuring keynotes from industry leaders and the latest in AI technology. Additionally, engage in practical workshops like the AI Builders series, where you can enhance your skills in prompt design. Join us in exploring the future of technology and its impact on business and society.

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Microsoft Security Summit Sweden

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Microsoft Copilot Chat Hackathon Gothenburg

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Security

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Security updates, identity protection, compliance tools, and threat intelligence, including Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Security Copilot, Entra and more.

Harden your identity defense with improved protection, deeper correlation, and richer context

Expanded ITDR features—including the new Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor, now generally available—bring improved protection, correlation, and context to help customers modernize their identity defense.

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The CISO imperative: Building resilience in an era of accelerated cyberthreats

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The new Microsoft Security Store unites partners and innovation

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Inside the attack chain: Threat activity targeting Azure Blob Storage

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Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM

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Extortion and ransomware drive over half of cyberattacks

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The importance of hardening customer support tools against cyberattacks

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Microsoft raises the bar: A smarter way to measure AI for cybersecurity

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Modern Work

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Updates on Microsoft 365, Copilot & Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, Viva, and other productivity and collaboration tools

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4 Ways Copilot in Microsoft Fabric Accelerates Data Engineering and Analytics

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Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | September 2025

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What’s New in Microsoft Teams | September 2025

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Getting the best out of threads in Microsoft Teams channels

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Office 2016/2019 have reached end of support – here's what to do now

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Exciting new capabilities and enhancements for M365 Developer Program – October 2025

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ICYMI Microsoft Partner Blog | Transforming customer engagement into growth with Copilot and agentic AI

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Oct 24, 2025 Read more

Business Applications

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Dynamics 365 and Power Platform updates

Simplifying License Management for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations: Improved User License Validation

Microsoft is updating the timeline for in-app notifications and per-user license validation to give customers more time to prepare. To enable a smoother and more predictable experience, license validation will follow a staged rollout aligned with customer’s contract renewal or anniversary date. In parallel, we are introducing additional tools and reporting capabilities to increase transparency and improve the overall experience for customers...

Sep 25, 2025 Read more

Simplifying License Management for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations: Improved User License Validation

Microsoft is updating the timeline for in-app notifications and per-user license validation to give customers more time to prepare. To enable a smoother and more predictable experience, license validation will follow a staged rollout aligned with customer’s contract renewal or anniversary date. In parallel, we are introducing additional tools and reporting capabilities to increase transparency and improve the overall experience for customers managing...

Sep 25, 2025 Read more

Introducing Microsoft Marketplace — Thousands of solutions. Millions of customers. One Marketplace.

To empower customers in becoming Frontier, we’re excited to announce the launch of the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace, your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps and agents.

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Reinventing business process with AI: Agents in record to report

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Protecting Your Organization with the Phishing Detection Security Agent for Power Pages

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Try the AI agent activity feed in Dynamics 365 Customer Service

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Explore new AI innovation for Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Copilot Studio at the Business Applications Launch Event

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Seamlessly Open VS Code Desktop from Power Pages VS Code for the Web with auto-download site code

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Integrate Field Service bookings with Outlook and Teams, now Generally Available.

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Oct 13, 2025 Read more

Announcing sensitive data redaction for voice AI agents

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Oct 15, 2025 Read more

Use custom productivity tools in Dynamics 365 Customer Service

As customer service teams strive to deliver faster, more personalized support, the need for tailored productivity enhancements has never been greater. With the introduction of custom productivity tools in Dynamics 365 Copilot Service Workspace (CSw), organizations can now equip customer service representatives with purpose-built utilities that streamline workflows, reduce clicks, and eliminate context switching. From generic to purpose built While CSw offers a robust set...

Oct 17, 2025 Read more

Infrastructure

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Updates on Azure cloud services, including Azure compute, networking, storage and hybrid solutions, Arc, Kubernetes, and more

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level

Flexible service level allows you to independently configure storage capacity and throughput, optimizing costs and performance by right-sizing based on your needs. This new service level avoids overprovisioning by supporting a customizable throughput whic...

Sep 25, 2025 Read more

Azure VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement on June 30, 2028

Microsoft is announcing the retirement of the AV36 node type on June 30, 2028. The terms of your current AV36 Reserved Instance (RI) are not affected by this announcement. At this time, we recommend that you review your current AV36 RI expiration timeline...

Sep 27, 2025 Read more

[Launched] Generally Available: Visualize New Azure Resource Manager Metrics through Azure Monitor

We are announcing that Azure Resource Manager now offers enhanced integration with Azure Monitor Metrics for your subscriptions! You can now have deeper visibility and more granular monitoring capabilities for your Resource Manager operations.You can acce...

Sep 29, 2025 Read more

Microsoft Azure delivers the first large scale cluster with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for OpenAI workloads

Microsoft delivers the first at-scale production cluster with more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs connected through the next-generation NVIDIA InfiniBand network.

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

Microsoft’s commitment to supporting cloud infrastructure demand in Asia

Microsoft is expanding its cloud infrastructure across Asia to help organizations scale with secure, AI-ready services. Learn more.

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery support for Ultra Disks

Announcing the General Availability of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) support for Virtual Machines with Ultra Disks. This release enables organizations to replicate, failover, and failback virtual machines with Ultra Disks across Azure regions with minimal imp...

Oct 14, 2025 Read more

Oracle Database@Azure offers new features, regions, and programs to unlock data and AI innovation

Oracle Database@Azure adds new AI-ready features, expands to 33 regions, and launches new partner and migration programs...

Oct 14, 2025 Read more

From queries to conversations: Unlock insights about your data using Azure Storage Discovery—now generally available

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Discovery.

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

[Launched] Open Source: Containerization Assist MCP Server

Containerization Assist solves the challenge of manual, error-prone containerization by automating Dockerfile creation and Kubernetes manifest generation. Unlike basic AI coding tools, it is a full containerization platform built on AKS Draft’s proven rea...

Oct 20, 2025 Read more

[Launched] Generally Available: Near-zero downtime scaling for HA-enabled Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers

You can now scale your Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers that have high availability (HA) enabled with minimal impact to your users. The process usually takes less than 30 seconds, while traditional scaling can take 2 to 10 minutes. This new capabilit...

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-October 2025

In mid-October 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Improve the redirect connection type to require only port 1433 and promote to default. Learn more. Convert Azure SQL Database to Hyperscale while preserving existing geo...

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

Fully managed cloud-to-cloud transfers with Azure Storage Mover

Move data from Files Shares and NAS Storage into Azure Object and File storage with minimal disruption.

Oct 23, 2025 Read more

Data & AI

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Updates and news on Azure AI, Azure OpenAI Service, Synapse Analytics, Fabric, cloud databases, and more

Grok 4 is now available in Azure AI Foundry: Unlock frontier intelligence and business-ready capabilities

Microsoft has collaborated closely with xAI to bring Grok 4, their most advanced model, to Azure AI Foundry—delivering powerful reasoning within a platform designed for business-ready safety and control.

Sep 29, 2025 Read more

Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework, now in public preview, and new capabilities in Azure AI Foundry make it easier for developers to build, observe, and govern multi-agent systems.

Oct 1, 2025 Read more

Unleash your creativity at scale: Azure AI Foundry’s multimodal revolution

Imagine a platform where every developer can unlock the full spectrum of AI: text, images, audio, and video. This OpenAI DevDay, Azure AI Foundry is making that vision real. With today’s launch of OpenAI GPT-image-1-mini, GPT-realtime-mini, and GPT-audio-mini, plus major safety upgrades to GPT-5, you now have the ultimate toolkit to create, experiment, and scale multimodal solutions.

Oct 6, 2025 Read more

Sora 2 now available in Azure AI Foundry

Turning imagination into reality has never been more possible—or more powerful—than it is today. With OpenAI’s Sora 2 now in public preview in Azure AI Foundry, organizations of all sizes can harness this advanced multimodal video generation model to accelerate innovation, drive engagement, and transform how ideas become compelling visual stories.

Oct 15, 2025 Read more

From Files to Delta Tables—Parquet & JSON data ingestion simplified with Shortcut Transformations

Picture this: A data engineer at a global enterprise starts the day with a familiar challenge – ‘Why does ingesting Parquet and JSON files always feel like a battle?’. Data engineers are dealing with millions of records stored in compressed Parquet files and deeply nested JSON logs. Every schema change means hours of debugging. Every …

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

External data materialization in Fabric Data Warehouse

Data warehouses are at the core of modern analytics, enabling organizations to turn raw data into actionable insights. Fabric Data Warehouse empowers data professionals to analyze various types of data from the classic DW table to the Parquet, CSV, and JSONL files. One of the most important decisions when working with external data is how …

Oct 20, 2025 Read more

Unlock Real-Time Intelligence with the Eventhouse Endpoint for Lakehouse

The Eventhouse Endpoint for Lakehouse is a powerful new capability in Microsoft Fabric that enables users to query Lakehouse tables with exceptional speed and ease, delivering real-time insights with high performance with large data volume, flexibility, advanced analytics capabilities, support for enhanced data formats such as strings and dynamic types and simplicity. Whether you’re working …

Oct 20, 2025 Read more

How Spark Supports OneLake Security with Row and Column Level Policies

Recently, we announced a significant milestone: public support for Row and Column Level Security within OneLake. This universal security framework applies consistently across all data engines, regardless of how data is accessed. Traditionally, Spark does not provide granular security features and assumes unrestricted access to the required datasets for query execution. To address this limitation, …

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

SSMS 22 Meets Fabric Data Warehouse: Evolving the Developer Experiences

Why this Investment Matters For years, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has been the go-to tool for millions of SQL developers worldwide. With millions of active users, SSMS remains the most trusted environment for database professionals. Yet, Fabric Data Warehouse had long lacked deep integration with SSMS, leaving developers to juggle inconsistent experiences between web …

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

The Signals Loop: Fine-tuning for world-class AI apps and agents

Autonomous workflows, powered by real-time feedback and continuous learning, are becoming essential for productivity and decision-making.

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

OneLake APIs: Bring your apps and build new ones with familiar Blob and ADLS APIs

OneLake is the unified data lake for Microsoft Fabric, designed to simplify data management and accelerate analytics across your organization. The best part is, OneLake speaks the same language your applications already do. With support for the ubiquitous Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) or Blob Storage APIs, OneLake makes it easy to bring your existing applications and …

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

Securely Accessing External and On-Premises Data Sources with Fabric Data Engineering Workloads

Managed Private Endpoints support for connecting to Private Link Services is now available in Microsoft Fabric (Public REST APIs). This has been one of the top requests from our customers and the community: the ability to securely connect Fabric Spark compute to on-premises and network-isolated data sources using the option to allowlist Fully Qualified Domain …

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

Digital & App Innovation

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Updates on application modernization and development with Azure App Services, Functions, Kubernetes Service, Github, DevOps, and more

Visual Studio September Update – profiler agent, app modernization, and more

The September 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available. In this month, we are bringing you a fully integrated and game-changing agentic AI experience, from code generation to modernization, profiling, and code reviews. Profiler Agent We’ve heard the feedback loud and clear developers love the Profiler Agent. So, we’re bringing it...

Sep 30, 2025 Read more

The $150 Secret Hiding in Plain Sight

Picture this: I’m standing in front of 400+ developers at Visual Studio Live! Redmond, right here on the Microsoft campus in Building 33, about to reveal what I call the hidden value of a Visual Studio subscription. I pull up a simple question on the screen: About half the hands go up in the packed...

Oct 1, 2025 Read more

VS Live! Orlando – Your Ultimate Learning Adventure

Imagine swapping stories with fellow developers over dinner as the Florida sun sets, then beginning the next morning with a stroll past the resort’s palm-lined walkways before catching your first session across 41 dynamic tracks. From there, immerse yourself in a full day of learning and connection. That’s the magic of Visual Studio Live! at Live 360...

Oct 2, 2025 Read more

Copilot: Faster, smarter, and built for how you work now

Discover how GitHub Copilot has evolved from a high-powered autocomplete tool to a powerful, multi-model agentic assistant.

Oct 15, 2025 Read more

How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if you’re an introvert

If alone time is your love language—don’t worry, it’s ours too—you can still attend, learn from, and enjoy big events like GitHub Universe. Here are some practical tips on how.

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

Streamlined Setup, Stronger Guardrails for Microsoft Dev Box

We’re excited to introduce a new capability that simplifies Dev Box setup—enabling platform engineers and project admins to specify images and SKUs directly when configuring Dev Box pools, without needing to create Dev Box definitions at the Dev Center level. 🔄What’s changing Until now, configuring Dev Box pools with Azure Marketplace images or custom images...

Oct 17, 2025 Read more

Inside the breach that broke the internet: The untold story of Log4Shell

Log4Shell proved that open source security isn't guaranteed and isn’t just a code problem. It's about supporting, enabling, and empowering the people behind the projects that build our digital infrastructure.

Oct 20, 2025 Read more

Introducing Planning in Visual Studio (Public Preview)

Quick prompts are great for small fixes, but they fall short on big projects. You end up rewriting instructions, tweaking them constantly, and hoping the model stays on track. It gives Copilot a visible, structured path to follow, one that updates as it works and keeps you in control at every step. In Agent Mode,

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

Top security researcher shares their bug bounty process

For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to put the spotlight on a talented security researcher—André Storfjord Kristiansen!

Oct 22, 2025 Read more

The road to better completions: Building a faster, smarter GitHub Copilot with a new custom model

Find out about the latest custom models powering the completions experience in GitHub Copilot.

Oct 23, 2025 Read more

How to find, install, and manage MCP servers with the GitHub MCP Registry

Learn how to bring structure and security to your AI ecosystem with the GitHub MCP Registry, the single source of truth for managing and governing MCP servers.

Oct 24, 2025 Read more

Your 6-Step Guide to Deploying a Website with GitHub Codespaces and Copilot agent mode

👋everyone! Shree here. I’m sure many of you have had a similar chat with someone you know. We often hesitate to celebrate our achievements because of social perceptions around self-promotion. I believe it’s time to challenge that mindset. Building a personal site is about owning your narrative and showcasing your work with pride. In this...

Oct 24, 2025 Read more

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Updates and news on research, skilling, as well as tailored solutions and innovations for industries including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and more

Transforming our VPN with Global Secure Access at Microsoft

Ensuring safe and secure access to resources in the enterprise has always been a delicate balance. Protecting corporate assets from intrusions and misuse is paramount. But a system that neglects usability for employees creates frustration and inefficiencies. At Microsoft, we’re in the midst of a major transformation in how we manage access to our corporate...

Sep 25, 2025 Read more

Defining the future: How we’re building an AI-powered continuous improvement culture at Microsoft

We’re at a crucial point in the history of technology. Our need for greater efficiency and productivity is urgent and increasing. At the same time, AI is unlocking our human potential with advances in workflow automation that were unimaginable just a few years ago. This is a time of enormous possibility, but it comes with...

Sep 25, 2025 Read more

Certifications refresh: AI-focused and fundamentals updates

As the age of AI reshapes the business landscape, organizations are embedding AI into every layer of their operations. Professionals, students, entrepreneurs, and others are learning to not only implement business solutions but also to design and integrate AI-powered apps and experiences, orchestrate autonomous agents, and govern ethical AI systems. To support these skill-building needs for learners in all career stages, Microsoft Learn is refreshing our Certification and...

Sep 25, 2025 Read more

Transforming security and compliance at Microsoft with Windows Hotpatch

Security updates are essential, and every security admin knows that when it comes to applying these updates, faster is better to mitigate the risk. However, security updates have always come with a catch: Windows needs to reboot to apply them. Reboots mean interrupted productivity and downtime for users. For us at Microsoft Digital, Microsoft’s internal...

Oct 2, 2025 Read more

‘Putting your meetings in your earbuds’: How we now catch up on missed meetings with Audio Recap podcasts

Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. Here at Microsoft, we’re putting our meetings into our earbuds. That’s the best way to think about the new Audio Recap feature in Microsoft...

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

Enabling meaningful AI adoption at Microsoft with a Microsoft 365 Copilot Expo

As our employees incorporate AI into their day-to-day routines, new ways of working are emerging at Microsoft. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. People are using Microsoft 365 Copilot as...

Oct 9, 2025 Read more

Q1 Recap: What’s new in Microsoft Security skilling

As we wrap up an exciting first quarter, we’re thrilled to share some of the latest updates, resources, and learning opportunities in the world of Microsoft Security. Whether you’re a developer, IT admin, or security professional, there is something here for everyone looking to level up their skills and stay ahead in our ever-evolving landscape. Microsoft Sentinel data lake is now live!

Oct 14, 2025 Read more

Extending AI impact at HLTH 2025: Dragon Copilot scales across care teams, partners, and geographies

At HLTH 2025, we’re spotlighting how Microsoft Dragon Copilot, a breakthrough AI clinical assistant, is supporting more clinicians and geographies.

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

Keeping our in-house optical network safe with a Zero Trust mentality

When it comes to corporate connectivity at Microsoft, a minute of lost connection can lead to catastrophic disruptions for our product teams, sleepless nights for our network engineers, and millions of dollars of lost value for the company. That’s why we built our own optical network at our headquarters in Washington state, and that’s why...

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

Vuln.AI: Our AI-powered leap into vulnerability management at Microsoft

In today’s hyperconnected enterprise landscape, vulnerability management is no longer a back-office function—it’s a frontline defense. With thousands of devices from a multitude of vendors, and a relentless stream of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), here at Microsoft we faced a challenge familiar to every IT decision maker: how to scale vulnerability response without scaling...

Oct 16, 2025 Read more

The Frontier Firm in banking: A blueprint for advanced AI innovation

Explore the blueprint for becoming a Frontier Firm in financial services—where AI agents work alongside employees, accelerate decision-making, and unlock scalable innovation.

Oct 21, 2025 Read more

New Certification for architects of agentic AI business solutions

We’re looking for architects of agentic AI business solutions to take our new beta exam. Do you have experience envisioning and implementing AI-driven architecture strategies, integrating agents into business solutions, and guiding organizations toward AI adoption? Are you skilled at designing, prototyping, and securing scalable AI solutions, analyzing technical requirements, and leading the end-to-end delivery of AI-centric solutions that align with business goals?

Oct 22, 2025 Read more
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