Workday and Microsoft’s new integration aims to let organisations manage human employees and AI agents from a single, auditable plane — registering Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry agents into Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR) and giving each agent a verifiable Microsoft Entra Agent ID...
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Microsoft’s decision to let organizations stream single Windows applications from the cloud — instead of entire Cloud PC sessions — marks a pragmatic pivot in how enterprises will adopt Windows 365 for day-to-day workforces and frontline roles. The new Windows 365 Cloud Apps feature, now in...
Azure’s new Agent Factory blueprint reframes trust as the primary design constraint for enterprise agents and presents Azure AI Foundry as a layered, identity‑first platform that combines identity, guardrails, continuous evaluation, and enterprise governance to keep agentic AI safe, auditable...
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Workday’s alignment with Microsoft marks a pragmatic shift from pilot-era AI experiments toward a governed, identity-first model for scaling agentic automation inside the enterprise, giving organizations a single plane to register, manage, and measure both human workers and AI agents across HR...
Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...
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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...
Workday and Microsoft quietly stitched together a practical bridge between identity, runtime, and business context for AI agents—an integration that promises to make digital workers first-class citizens in enterprise HR, finance, and security systems while raising new questions about governance...
Workday and Microsoft have announced a close technical alignment that will let AI “agents”—software entities built in Microsoft’s developer stack—receive directory-backed identities and be managed, governed, and audited inside Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), creating a single plane...
Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...
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BlinkOps’ announced integration with Microsoft Sentinel brings a new class of agentic security automation into the Azure ecosystem — available today through the Azure Marketplace and supported by prebuilt content in the Sentinel Content Hub — and that combination has immediate operational...
On October 14, 2025, support for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 ends — one month from now — and organizations that delay face escalating operational risk, loss of security updates, and an increasingly narrow set of safe upgrade paths. Microsoft’s Exchange engineering team has...
Microsoft’s new Access Review Agent for Entra ID promises to turn one of the most tedious and error-prone identity-governance chores into a guided, AI-assisted workflow inside Microsoft Teams — but the convenience comes with clear prerequisites, operational trade-offs, and governance...
Microsoft and the European Commission have reached a binding settlement that will reshape how Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams are sold and integrated across Europe — and, in practice, globally — by enforcing unbundling, minimum price deltas, expanded interoperability APIs, and...
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Microsoft’s decision to formally separate Teams from Office 365/Microsoft 365 marks the close of a high‑stakes regulatory chapter and creates a new competitive baseline for enterprise collaboration tools worldwide. The European Commission and Microsoft reached a negotiated package of commitments...
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Microsoft is taking the first concrete step in its phased enforcement of the dedicated Exchange hybrid app requirement: on September 16, 2025 at 07:00 UTC Microsoft will temporarily block Exchange Web Services (EWS) traffic that uses the Exchange Online shared service principal for hybrid...
Microsoft’s message at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference was unambiguous: the company sees Copilot — and the broader Copilot/Foundry/agent stack — as the hinge that will turn today’s productivity applications into the operating system for the AI era, but the path from...
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Hitachi Solutions Europe’s Proof of Concept (PoC) that let Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — operate on live, sensitive case data stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that data represents a practical leap for secure...
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Microsoft’s Exchange team published a short but important Hotfix Update (HU) rollup for September 2025 that is aimed at fixing a non‑security issue in earlier updates and, crucially, preserves support for the dedicated Exchange hybrid application workflow introduced earlier in 2025 — the update...
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Redaction automation is quietly becoming one of the most consequential — and immediately practical — AI use cases in government, and Simpson Associates’ RedactXpert is now a textbook example of how targeted AI can deliver measurable operational gains while fitting inside existing Microsoft cloud...
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Microsoft’s new federal bargain is one of those rare deals that looks simple on paper and seismic in practice: deep, governmentwide discounts on Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, security tooling and — critically — up to 12 months of Microsoft 365 Copilot for qualifying G5 agency customers...
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