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HP’s silent OneAgent update for a subset of its new “AI PC” laptops accidentally removed Microsoft-issued certificates and, in some cases, severed devices’ trust with Microsoft Entra ID — forcing HP to pull the patch, assist affected customers, and leave IT teams re-checking their assumptions...

HP quietly pulled a Windows update for its HP OneAgent after the package’s cleanup script removed legitimate Microsoft certificates — including tenant-specific Entra ID/Intune certificates — causing some HP “AI PC” devices to lose their Entra ID (Azure AD) join and preventing corporate sign‑in...

Microsoft’s Entra ID will let administrators create multiple, group‑scoped passkey profiles — a move that shifts passkey (FIDO2) controls from a single tenant‑wide setting to a flexible, profile-based model and introduces a broader acceptance of attestation formats when Enforce attestation is...

Microsoft has opened the door for secure, managed collaboration with non‑employee accounts by adding external identity support for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 in public preview — a change that lets organizations invite partners, contractors, and other guest users into their Entra...

Microsoft Azure customers reported widespread trouble accessing the Azure Portal and other services on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) that produced intermittent portal outages and downstream service degradation across parts of Europe and...

Microsoft corrected a potentially catastrophic identity flaw in Entra ID that could have allowed cross‑tenant impersonation of any user — including Global Administrators — by abusing undocumented internal tokens and a validation gap in a legacy API; the publicly tracked identifier for this issue...

Microsoft’s cloud and gaming ecosystems were shaken on Thursday, October 9, 2025, as a widespread outage left thousands of Microsoft 365, Teams, Azure, Microsoft Store, Xbox and Minecraft users unable to authenticate, log in, or reach admin portals — with a particularly high volume of reports...

Microsoft has quietly added a new, no-cost layer to its Entra identity stack: Microsoft Entra ID Free, a tenant-level subscription that appears in billing accounts to surface tenant ownership, simplify tenant inventory, and provide an additional way to demonstrate and recover administrative...

Workday and Microsoft have announced a strategic integration that aims to let enterprises register, govern, and measure AI agents alongside human employees—linking Microsoft’s agent toolchain (Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry) and Entra Agent ID with Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR) so...

Grand Traverse County is preparing a cautious entry into generative AI: commissioners are being asked to approve a near‑$400,000 renewal of the county’s Microsoft 365 subscription that includes a proposal to add 100 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses as a controlled pilot, accompanied by an...

Grand Traverse County is asking commissioners to approve a near-$400,000 renewal of its Microsoft 365 subscription and — crucially — to add 100 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses as part of a controlled pilot, a move that crystallizes how local governments are balancing productivity gains from...

Ontinue’s announcement that its Posture Advisor Agent Core will be available through Microsoft’s new Security Store marks another tangible step in the rapid commercialization of security AI agents—promising easier deployment of identity-hardening tooling for Microsoft Entra ID tenants while...

When a Dutch researcher glanced at a token stream while preparing a Black Hat talk, he didn’t just find a bug—he found a fault line in the foundations of cloud identity that could have allowed a single click to flip virtually every Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) tenant from secure to owned. The...

A newly disclosed flaw in Microsoft Entra ID — tracked as CVE-2025-55241 — exposed a fragile seam in cloud identity where undocumented internal tokens and a legacy API’s weak validation combined to create a near‑universal tenant takeover vector; Microsoft has patched the defect, but the incident...

Security researcher Dirk‑jan Mollema’s discovery of two linked vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Entra ID architecture exposed a failure mode that, by design, could have allowed an attacker with limited on‑premises access to gain near‑complete control over hybrid Microsoft environments — a chain...

Microsoft’s latest push to plant Copilot into every corner of Teams marks a decisive shift: AI is moving from a personal “assistant” to a collaborative, agent-driven layer that lives inside meetings, channels, SharePoint workspaces, and Viva Engage communities. The company announced new...

Workday and Microsoft have announced a practical, identity-first integration that lets organizations register, verify, and govern AI agents alongside human employees by linking Microsoft’s agent runtime and identity tooling with Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), enabling agents built...

Windows Insiders on the Beta Channel received a small but meaningful preview build today: Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.6690 (KB5065786), delivered to devices running Windows 11, version 24H2 as a Beta Channel enablement package and focused largely on controlled feature rollouts, bug...

Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context...

Microsoft’s AKS Automatic is the kind of product that reads like a direct answer to a single question enterprises have been asking for years: how do we keep Kubernetes’ benefits without paying an ever‑rising Kubernetes tax in staff, time, and outages? Background Kubernetes is the default runtime...