azure arc

Microsoft made Azure Arc-enabled hotpatching available at no additional cost for Windows Server 2025 Standard and Datacenter machines on May 19, 2026, extending reboot-light security servicing to on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud servers managed through Azure Arc. The change turns what had...

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-40381 on May 12, 2026, as an Important-rated elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine Agent, the software component that lets Windows and Linux servers outside Azure be managed through Azure Arc. The immediate story is not a flashy wormable...

Microsoft put cert-manager support for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes into public preview in April 2026, packaging Microsoft-supported cert-manager and trust-manager components as an Arc extension for clusters running on-premises, at the edge, and across other clouds. The move is not glamorous...

Microsoft has pushed Azure Local into a new class of private cloud infrastructure, saying the platform can now scale to deployments of thousands of servers inside a single sovereign boundary. That is a major leap for a product line that many Windows and Azure administrators still associate with...

Microsoft’s Windows Admin Center is once again at the center of a larger security lesson: hybrid management tools can become a bridge for attackers, not just a convenience for administrators. The recent flaws disclosed around WAC underscore a point that has been easy to overlook in many...

Microsoft is using Windows Server 2026’s planning season to make a very clear point: the next phase of server operations is less about chasing isolated features and more about reducing friction in the real world. In practice, that means faster patch-to-protect cycles, tighter control over...

Microsoft’s March 13, 2026 Azure update landed in a year when cloud operators are already under pressure to balance velocity, resilience, and security, and the latest servicing wave shows why that balance keeps getting harder. The update set is not just about a single product: it sits inside a...

Microsoft has published a Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2026-26135, describing an Elevation of Privilege issue in the Azure Custom Locations Resource Provider. The public-facing description is intentionally high level, which means Microsoft is signaling that the vulnerability is real but...

A chain of flaws in the Azure Arc / Azure Connected Machine agent for Windows can let a low‑privileged local user hijack agent service communications, impersonate the machine’s cloud identity, escalate to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM and — in the worst case — cause the machine to register to an...

Microsoft has set a firm deadline: extended support for Windows Server 2016 ends on January 12, 2027, and organizations still running that platform need a concrete, time‑bound migration and risk‑mitigation plan now...

Microsoft’s cloud-first posture is unmistakable, but the story of on‑premises Microsoft services is not over: companies can — and in many cases must — continue to run core Microsoft platforms in their own datacenters, provided they understand the tradeoffs around licensing, lifecycle, and...

Microsoft’s advisory entry for CVE‑2026‑24302 identifies an elevation‑of‑privilege weakness affecting Azure Arc / Azure Connected Machine (azcmagent) components, but public technical details remain intentionally sparse; defenders must therefore treat the advisory as urgent while mapping the CVE...

Microsoft’s decision to shift the Sentinel/telemetry migration timeline and related monitoring deprecations toward a January 2027 end-of-support window is the most consequential infrastructure calendar call many enterprise ops teams will face this year — and it arrived after a wave of customer...

Microsofto’s Jan. 19, 2026 announcement that it will deprecate the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) marks another clear pivot from on‑premises...

Microsoft’s announcement that the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management packs for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) are formally deprecated in January 2026 with an End of Support date of January 2027 is a...

Microsoft’s announcement that the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) are deprecanted — with support ending in January 2027 — is a tectonic shift for enterprises...

Microsoft’s latest lifecycle moves have quietly — and in some cases not so quietly — tightened the noose on on‑premises SQL tooling and monitoring, forcing many organizations to rethink long‑standing architectures and operational contracts. Two separate but complementary actions define the...

A high‑confidence elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability has been recorded in the Azure Connected Machine (azcmagent) / Azure Arc agent ecosystem under CVE‑2026‑21224, touching an agent component that bridges on‑host systems with the Azure management plane — a class of flaws that can convert a...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2026-21224, an elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine Agent (azcmagent), that — if successfully exploited — can allow a local, low‑privileged actor to escalate to SYSTEM/root on managed servers and potentially abuse...

Microsoft and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) have delivered a major operational win for cloud security teams: official CIS Linux Benchmarks are now available as a built‑in capability in Microsoft Azure, exposed through Azure Policy’s Machine Configuration and powered by the new...