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  1. Workday and Microsoft: Unified AI Agents with Entra ID and ASOR

    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...
  2. Windows 365 Cloud Apps: App-only streaming for frontline workers

    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...
  3. Azure AI Foundry: Identity-First Agent Factory for Secure Enterprise AI

    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...
  4. Workday–Microsoft AI Agents: Identity-First Governance for Enterprise Automation

    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...
  5. Workday–Microsoft AI Agents: Identity-Driven Enterprise Governance

    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...
  6. AKS Automatic: Production-Ready, One-Click Kubernetes on Azure

    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...
  7. Workday and Microsoft Unite to Govern AI Agents in the Enterprise

    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...
  8. Workday and Microsoft Align to Govern Enterprise AI Agents (ASOR & Entra)

    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...
  9. Workday and Microsoft Launch Agent System of Record for AI Agents

    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...
  10. BlinkOps + Microsoft Sentinel: Agentic Security Automation in Azure Marketplace

    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...
  11. End of Support for Exchange 2016/2019: Migrate to Online or SE Now

    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...
  12. AI-Powered Access Reviews in Teams for Entra ID (Preview)

    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...
  13. EU approves Microsoft Teams unbundling: pricing deltas, APIs, and data portability

    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...
  14. EU Unbundles Teams from Office 365: Pricing, Interop, and Data Portability

    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...
  15. Microsoft Enforces Dedicated Exchange Hybrid App: Sept 2025 Window

    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...
  16. Microsoft Copilot: The AI OS for Enterprise with Foundry and Agents

    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...
  17. Secure Multi-Cloud Connector Enables Power Platform on Live AWS Data for Government

    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...
  18. September 2025 Exchange Hotfix Update: Preserves Dedicated Hybrid App Support

    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...
  19. RedactXpert AI Auto-Redaction for Government in Azure

    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...
  20. OneGov Microsoft Deal: Federal AI Adoption, Copilot for G5, $3.1B First-Year Savings

    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...