identity management

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...

Grand Traverse County’s Board of Commissioners has approved a coordinated package of technology investments that pushes several core services toward vendor‑hosted cloud models, renews enterprise productivity licensing, and seeds a controlled pilot of generative AI — moves framed publicly as a...

Electronic health records (EHRs are now the operational heart of modern healthcare, but expanding clinician access without undermining patient safety demands a careful, risk-based redesign of identity, authentication, and access controls across people, devices, and applications. Background EHR...

Duo Directory Sync delivers a practical, one-way bridge from on-premises Active Directory into Duo by importing users, phones, groups and administrators via the Duo Authentication Proxy — but getting it right requires careful attention to authentication, transport security, proxy placement...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CVPeople Tanzania’s latest recruitment push — an advertised IT Airport Supervisor role alongside a coordinated intake of frontline technicians — confirms a visible expansion of on‑site IT capacity at Tanzania’s airports and signals an operational shift toward locally managed biometric and...

Generative AI has arrived in the boardroom and the break room alike — but the difference between headlines and hard outcomes is leadership, disciplined execution, and the work of adoption that too many organizations still underestimate. A recent event preview and podcast discussion that...

Life Without Barriers’ recent security refresh shows how human‑services organisations can use integrated Microsoft tooling to both reduce risk and free frontline staff for the work that matters. Background / Overview Life Without Barriers (LWB), one of Australia’s largest human‑services...

Microsoft’s operating system has always been a mix of pragmatic engineering, bold experiments, and occasional overreach — and some of its most interesting contributions were simply ahead of their time. A recent roundup of five Windows features — Briefcase, MSN Gaming Zone, Windows CardSpace...

Microsoft’s Exchange team has taken a decisive step toward finally letting organizations retire the last Exchange server in hybrid environments by adding cloud-managed remote mailbox support — a per-mailbox “flip-the-switch” that transfers Exchange attribute authority to Exchange Online while...

Zero-trust is not an add-on for AI pipelines — it must be baked into the fabric of how data, models and orchestration talk to one another. In a recent InfoWorld piece, the author laid out a metadata-driven, zero-trust MLOps reference architecture on Azure that combines Microsoft Entra ID, Azure...

CVPeople Tanzania’s recent IT Airport Supervisor recruitment notice doubles as a signal: Tanzania’s airports are deepening their commitment to on‑site technical teams to support biometric enrollment and immigration control systems, and the advertised role frames that expansion as both an...

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) now lists CVE-2025-53763 as an improper access control vulnerability in Azure Databricks that can be exploited to achieve elevation of privilege over the network, a finding that demands urgent attention from cloud and data platform administrators...

Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform has secured the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with Certified Software for Azure, a certification that positions the vendor squarely within Microsoft’s commercial ecosystem and signals that its SaaS planning suite has met a defined set of technical...

TrustedTech’s pivot from a licensing-focused reseller to a full-service Microsoft-first systems integrator is more than a new logo — it is a deliberate repositioning into the fast-growing market for Microsoft Copilot enablement, Azure tenant migrations, managed security, and onshore certified...

TrustedTech’s rebrand marks a decisive pivot from licensing reseller to full-spectrum Microsoft cloud and AI partner, positioning the firm to chase larger enterprise engagements and the booming market for Microsoft Copilot, Azure migrations, and managed security services. Background / Overview...