monitoring

Windows 11 does not expose CPU temperatures in its user interface, but monitoring your processor’s thermal behavior is essential — whether you’re troubleshooting sudden slowdowns, protecting a high-end Intel Core i9 build under heavy GPU load, or validating a new cooler after an upgrade. This...

Microsoft has begun removing the long‑standing Windows Management Instrumentation Command‑line (WMIC) tool from Windows images — WMIC will be absent by default on new installs and removed for systems upgraded to Windows 11, version 25H2 — and administrators must treat this as a scheduled change...

Microsoft has opened public preview for Azure Service Groups, a tenant-level abstraction that lets organizations create flexible, cross‑subscription groupings of resources for visibility, observability, and lightweight management without changing RBAC or policy inheritance across the resource...

Microsoft has quietly shifted a crucial enforcement point for enterprise AI: Copilot Studio now offers near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors and receive an approve-or-block verdict while the agent executes...

Microsoft has pushed a meaningful new enforcement point into AI agent workflows: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime monitoring that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions to an external policy engine — such as Microsoft Defender, a third‑party XDR, or a custom...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has added a near‑real‑time security control that routes an agent’s planned actions through external monitors—allowing organizations to approve or block tool calls and actions while an AI agent runs—and the capability is now available in public preview for Power...

Microsoft has quietly but meaningfully shifted the balance of power between autonomous AI agents and enterprise defenders: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitors (Microsoft Defender...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has added a near‑real‑time monitoring and control layer for AI agents, letting enterprises intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block agent actions as they execute, and giving security teams a new way to enforce policies at runtime without sacrificing agent...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...

Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue. Background The Red...

The Wplace “500 Internal Server Error” is an HTTP server error that prevents the canvas from loading and blocks actions like placing pixels or signing in; while it usually means something failed on Wplace’s servers, a short, methodical troubleshooting run on the client side will tell you whether...

Microsoft’s Agent Factory guidance sharpens the focus on agent observability as the non-negotiable foundation for reliable, safe, and scalable agentic AI — and its recommendations are timely: as agents move from prototypes to workflows that touch business-critical data and systems, observability...

Microsoft has moved the revamped Message Trace experience in Exchange Online out of preview and into general availability, bringing a faster UI, new PowerShell cmdlets, extended query windows, and new operational constraints that will change how administrators automate and extract trace data...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied by multiple independent community tests and tech outlets to a serious storage regression: under sustained, large sequential writes some SSDs can stop responding, disappear from Windows, and — in a...

August 12’s cumulative rollup for Windows Server 2022 (KB5063880, OS Build 20348.4052) is a pivotal update that continues Microsoft’s multi-year campaign to harden identity and boot integrity in Windows environments—most notably by reinforcing the Microsoft RPC Netlogon protocol against...

Microsoft’s move to meter Copilot Studio and AI agents by “messages” changes the calculus for automation: it makes on-demand, low-commitment experimentation easy, but it also requires careful billing-policy setup in Power Platform and Azure to avoid surprise costs and service disruptions...

Microsoft is again telling Windows 11 users to “ignore” a worrying-looking Event Viewer message after another round of updates and rollback confusion left Event ID 2042 entries populating security logs — a problem traced to an under-development firewall feature rather than a malfunctioning...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53765 describing an information disclosure vulnerability in Azure Stack Hub that can allow an authorized local actor to disclose private personal information; Microsoft’s advisory notes the issue specifically affects...

Microsoft's security update for a Windows File Explorer flaw underscores a long-standing risk vector: trusted UI components that implicitly parse untrusted content. In March 2025 Microsoft disclosed and patched a Windows File Explorer spoofing vulnerability that could cause Explorer to...

Microsoft has unveiled a comprehensive redesign of Windows 11's Task Manager, introducing a modern interface and enhanced functionality aimed at improving user experience and system monitoring capabilities. A Modernized Interface The updated Task Manager now features a sidebar-based navigation...