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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...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE‑2025‑62550 as a Remote Code Execution (RCE) entry affecting the Azure Monitor Agent, but the vendor page is client‑side rendered and does not expose full advisory text without JavaScript, so the public technical details remain limited until the MSRC...

The short version: a decade-old roundup that lists “10 tools for Microsoft Azure development” still surfaces in search results, but the landscape has changed dramatically—some entries are useful historical pointers, a few are niche community utilities, and several are obsolete or superseded by...

New Relic’s latest push to wire intelligent observability directly into Microsoft Azure’s agentic surfaces promises to shorten troubleshooting loops, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and bring production-grade telemetry into the IDE and control-plane experiences developers and SREs use...

Microsoft’s advisory tracker lists CVE-2025-62207 as an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Azure Monitor components, but public technical details are currently limited and the vendor entry does not disclose an exploit proof‑of‑concept; defenders should treat this as an urgent signal...

Microsoft’s advisory listings and community trackers show activity around Azure Monitor Agent and related Azure agents, but the numeric label CVE-2025-59504 could not be confidently resolved in vendor or community records during verification — what is verifiable is that multiple high‑impact...

Microsoft has published a high‑severity advisory for CVE‑2025‑55321: a cross‑site scripting (CWE‑79) flaw in Azure Monitor Log Analytics that can be abused by a privileged user to inject and render attacker‑controlled content in the Azure Monitor web UI, enabling spoofing of telemetry...

Microsoft has made Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic generally available, offering an “opinionated” — but fully Kubernetes‑compatible — managed mode that stitches together autoscaling, node lifecycle management, observability, and security defaults to deliver production‑ready clusters...

Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service has introduced a new, opinionated deployment mode — AKS Automatic — designed to dramatically reduce the operational overhead long associated with running Kubernetes at scale. The offering promises an “easy mode” for production-ready clusters with preselected...

Azure has made a decisive push to lower the operational friction of Kubernetes with the general availability of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic — an opinionated, fully managed mode of AKS that ships production-ready clusters with preselected networking, security, scaling, and...

Microsoft's cloud-scale DDoS service is no longer an optional add-on for large enterprises — it's a foundational element of modern application resilience, and the recent RedmondMag Q&A with Azure MVP Aidan Finn underscores why. The conversation distills how Azure DDoS Protection uses per‑address...

Microsoft’s internal IT organization has completed one of the most ambitious cloud migrations in corporate history — moving virtually all employee-facing systems into Azure and reshaping how the company thinks about operations, security, and engineering at scale. The transition, driven by...

Azure Arc gives Hyper‑V administrators a new, cloud‑centric management plane that complements — not replaces — established tools like System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Windows Admin Center (WAC), Hyper‑V Manager and PowerShell, and this guide walks through practical onboarding...

Azure Arc is becoming the practical replacement many enterprises need after Microsoft signaled the deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and for organizations that want to centralize patching across on-premises servers and Azure VMs the recommended route is to Arc‑enable servers...

Microsoft’s new OneGov agreement with the General Services Administration promises to make Microsoft 365 Copilot effectively free for qualifying federal customers while folding deep discounts across Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and security tooling into a government‑wide purchasing vehicle...

Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration have struck a sweeping OneGov agreement that puts Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack — including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure services, Dynamics 365, and security tooling — on preferential terms for federal agencies, with Microsoft and GSA...