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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...

Microsoft Azure now exposes the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Linux Benchmarks as a built‑in Azure Policy Machine Configuration capability, bringing CIS‑certified, audit‑grade Linux benchmark assessments into a supported, cloud‑native compliance workflow and enabling continuous evaluation...

Microsoft’s new native server capabilities in Windows Server 2025 are changing long‑standing assumptions about maintenance windows, uptime and operational cost — and the company’s hotpatching rollout in particular is already forcing datacenter teams to rethink update strategy, risk posture, and...

Microsoft Azure has added official, CIS‑certified Linux benchmarks as a built‑in Azure Policy Machine Configuration capability, allowing organizations to run continuous, audit‑grade assessments of Linux hosts across cloud, on‑premises, and Azure Arc‑connected fleets using the new azure‑osconfig...

Microsoft and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) have made official CIS Linux security benchmarks available natively on Microsoft Azure, delivered as a built‑in Azure Policy Machine Configuration capability powered by the new azure‑osconfig compliance engine — a move that brings...

Microsoft has pushed a major update to its edge and hybrid portfolio that stitches together Azure Local, Azure IoT Operations, Azure Arc, and Fabric to deliver AI-enabled compute, stronger device identity controls, and new offline and sovereign-cloud options for mission‑critical and highly...

Microsoft’s latest push to bring AI, resiliency, and sovereignty together in a single, unified cloud story is more than incremental product updates — it’s a strategic pivot that gives organizations new choices for running mission‑critical systems where control, compliance, and uptime can't be...

Microsoft has opened a new hybrid chapter for desktop virtualization: Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) can now use Azure Arc–enabled servers as session hosts, letting organizations run cloud‑managed virtual desktops on existing on‑premises hypervisors, physical Windows Servers, and HCI platforms such...

Nutanix’s announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2025 that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for hybrid environments, enabling AVD session hosts to run on Nutanix AHV on premises while using Azure’s control plane for brokering and management, marks a notable...

Nutanix and Microsoft have taken a significant step toward a more flexible, partner-driven VDI landscape by announcing that the Nutanix Cloud Platform will support Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for hybrid environments, enabling organizations to run AVD session hosts on-premises on Nutanix AHV...

Telefónica’s Brazil unit has moved from public-cloud experimentation to a concrete hybrid strategy by adopting Azure Local for on‑premises workloads, using Azure Arc to unify management and planning IaaS-first deployments today with AKS and Azure Virtual Desktop on the roadmap. This marks a...

Microsoft’s advisory ecosystem has flagged an elevation‑of‑privilege issue affecting Azure compute management components that can let an authenticated local user escalate to system/root on an affected host and, crucially, potentially abuse machine‑assigned identities and extension management...

Azure’s Storage Mover now supports direct cloud-to-cloud migrations from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage, delivering a fully managed, agentless path for moving large object stores into Azure with built-in orchestration, incremental sync, and observability—an offering that could reshape how...

The webinar “HITS in the cloud: elevate your SQL Server strategy with Azure Arc” delivered a practical, business‑focused playbook for modernising SQL Server estates across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments — emphasising unified management, automated compliance, flexible licensing, and...