Microsoft has expanded Microsoft Entra’s logging toolkit with a set of targeted capabilities that give administrators far better visibility into agent activity, service-to-service authentication, and richer sign-in attributes — features designed to improve security monitoring, incident...
A recent Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated via a press release and republished across PR channels — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability for many enterprise AI...
Microsoft is expanding the reach of AI inside Teams with a public preview of Project Manager agent skills that aim to turn meeting chatter and channel conversations into tracked, actionable work — but the feature brings licensing, governance, and operational caveats that IT teams must weigh...
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...
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Inforcer’s recent elevation into Microsoft’s MSP-focused Intune initiative marks a tangible step toward making Microsoft 365 more manageable, secure, and AI-ready for Managed Service Providers — and it comes at a moment when MSPs desperately need standardized, scale-ready tooling to extract...
Bonfy.AI’s latest update to its Adaptive Content Security platform lands squarely in the intersection of AI adoption and enterprise security, expanding native integrations across Microsoft 365 and positioning an AI-first approach to Data Loss Prevention that specifically targets risks introduced...
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 enterprise backup story just took a meaningful step: Windows Backup for Organizations — the tenant-scoped backup and restore experience Microsoft built to ease device refreshes and large-scale Windows migrations — is being exposed to Intune administrators and moving into wider...
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Microsoft’s new Agent Factory narrative makes a simple but decisive argument: building a single clever agent is no longer enough—real business value arrives when agents, tools, and enterprise systems interoperate through open protocols, enterprise connectors, and built‑in governance so agents...
Microsoft’s Copilot has stopped being an optional curiosity and is rapidly becoming the default AI companion inside the apps people already use to get work done, and that shift matters for businesses deciding whether to bolt AI onto workflows or let it live inside them.
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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...
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Microsoft’s August rollout tightened the screws on enterprise readiness while pushing AI deeper into Windows’ DNA — security hardenings, lifecycle milestones, and practical tooling dominated the month as Microsoft readied Windows 11 version 25H2 for general release. The update cadence in August...
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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...
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Microsoft has pushed targeted Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) updates for Windows 11 in late August 2025—delivering KB5065813, KB5065847 and KB5065848—to change how new and freshly imaged devices handle day‑one servicing and enrollment during initial setup.
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Microsoft is rolling a change that will alter the first minutes of life for new Windows 11 devices in many organizations: starting with the September 2025 security update, eligible enterprise and education PCs will check for and install the latest Windows quality updates during the Out‑Of‑Box...
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Microsoft’s new Windows Backup for Organizations lands in the enterprise as a tightly scoped, Intune-integrated way to preserve Windows settings and Microsoft Store app lists in the cloud — but it is not a replacement for disk imaging, file-level backups, or full disaster recovery.
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Microsoft’s August preview updates quietly deliver a major new enterprise capability: Windows Backup for Organizations has been promoted into Release Preview and is being positioned as the supported, tenant‑gated path for backing up and restoring user settings and Microsoft Store app lists in...
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Microsoft has quietly shifted a major piece of device provisioning from a manual follow-up task for end users to an automated, admin‑controlled step in setup — beginning with the September 2025 Windows security update, eligible Windows 11 devices can check for and install quality updates during...
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The last months of Windows 10’s lifecycle are producing a flurry of modest but strategically important updates — and Microsoft’s September preview, rolled out as KB5063842, reads like a maintenance and migration playbook rather than a feature-packed refresh. The patch fixes a handful of...
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Microsoft’s Release Preview push for Windows 10 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) is a terse but consequential update: delivered as an optional, non-security cumulative preview, it bundles a set of targeted reliability fixes while surfacing two management-facing capabilities that matter to IT teams —...
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