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The public preview tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft features and services that are in a pre-release testing phase, available for organizations to evaluate before general availability. Recent discussions include Project Manager agent skills in Teams, Windows 365 Cloud Apps for app-only streaming, Auto Agent Upgrade for Azure Arc, Windows Ambience with multimodal AI, Viva Insights Copilot analytics for managers, Windows 365 Reserve for temporary Cloud PCs, and Windows Backup for Organizations. These threads focus on enterprise IT readiness, licensing, governance, security, and operational considerations for adopting new Microsoft technologies during their public preview phase.
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    Power Apps Generative Pages Add Connector Data in Preview: SharePoint, SQL and December 2026 GA

    Power Apps generative pages have mostly worked with Dataverse data so far. Microsoft is now changing that. Roadmap item 576283, "Power Apps: Use Power Platform connectors in generative pages," lets makers pull connector data into AI-generated pages in model-driven apps. A page can show data from...
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    LocalStack for Azure Public Preview: Local AKS, Functions and Terraform Testing, Limits Explained

    LocalStack's Azure emulator is now open to anyone as a public preview. The tool lets developers run some Azure services in a local container, and the launch comes with several caveats. On October 7, 2026, LocalStack announced the public beta of LocalStack for Azure, a local cloud development...
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    GitHub Secret Scanning Public Monitoring Preview for Data Residency Tenants Uses Verified Domains

    GitHub has extended secret scanning's public monitoring to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency (GHEC DR). It is now in public preview. When the feature first launched in July, GitHub said support for Enterprise Cloud with data residency was coming soon. The October 22 changelog entry...
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    Microsoft Contact Center Intelligence Preview: AI Agents for Five9, Cisco and Avaya

    Microsoft has put Microsoft Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) into public preview. It's an AI layer for contact centers that Microsoft doesn't run. The pitch is that you keep your current contact center platform and add Microsoft's agents, quality scoring and analytics on top of it. The...
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    Azure Preview Lets Route Tables Disable VNet Peering Routes for NVA Traffic Steering

    Azure has put a new route-table setting into public preview. It lets you suppress the system-generated routes that VNet peering adds to a subnet. Microsoft's Azure Updates listing for "Disable VNet peering route" is dated October 20, 2026, and it is tagged "In preview". Microsoft defines that...
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    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Adds Linux Desktop Support in Public Preview

    For years, enterprise IT administrators and security operations teams have lived in a slightly awkward gray area when it came to developer laptops running Linux. While Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has long guarded the back-end Linux server racks, running the agent on an engineer’s Ubuntu or...
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    Azure Backup for PostgreSQL v2 Preview: Physical Backups, 64 TB Support and Restore as Server

    Azure Backup has a second-generation way to protect PostgreSQL, and it is now in public preview. The v2 design targets the gaps that have frustrated teams with big or distributed Postgres estates. Microsoft's Azure Updates entry carries the "In preview" label. Microsoft's own legend says that...
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    Dynamics 365 Contact Center Supervisor Preview Adds Live Wallboards and Queue Actions

    Microsoft has introduced a new supervisor experience for Dynamics 365 Contact Center. It streams live operational data into wallboards and interactive dashboards. It is a production-ready public preview, not a generally available release. Microsoft's documentation says production-ready previews...
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    AKS Ubuntu 26.04 Preview: Enable Ubuntu2604 Node Pools on Kubernetes 1.36+

    Microsoft has opened a public preview of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS as a node operating system on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The Azure Updates entry, titled "[In preview] Public Preview: Ubuntu 26.04 support in AKS," was posted on September 30, 2026. Put simply, Canonical's newest long-term support...
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    Azure Arc SQL Server Performance Dashboard Preview: Eligibility, Telemetry and Limits

    Microsoft's Azure Updates feed has a new entry dated September 29, 2026: "Public Preview: Performance monitoring for Azure Arc–enabled SQL Server." The label promises a lot, but the entry itself says very little. At the time of writing, the Azure Updates page for the item showed "0 Updates...
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    Azure HorizonDB Adds PostgreSQL 18 in Non-Production Preview

    Microsoft announced on September 25, 2026 that Azure HorizonDB now supports PostgreSQL 18 in public preview. HorizonDB is Microsoft's cloud-native managed database service built on PostgreSQL. Any Azure customer can now try the newest major PostgreSQL release on HorizonDB, but Microsoft limits...
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    Microsoft Foundry Adds Preview Voice Agents for Teams and Phones

    Microsoft has added real-time voice agents to Microsoft Foundry Agent Service as a public preview. Developers can now build, deploy, monitor and evaluate spoken AI agents with the same platform, APIs and SDKs they use for text agents, and those agents can run on the web, in Microsoft Teams, on...
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    Project Manager Agent in Teams: Licensing, Governance, and IT Readiness

    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...
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    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...
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    Auto Agent Upgrade for Azure Arc: Policy-driven CMA updates (Public Preview)

    Microsoft has quietly moved another piece of hybrid management from "manual chore" to "policy-driven automation" with the public preview of Auto Agent Upgrade for Azure Arc–enabled servers — a feature that will automatically keep the Azure Connected Machine agent current across on‑premises...
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    • agent lifecycle auto agent upgrade automation azure arc azure policy change control cma connected machine agent defender for cloud edge computing hybrid management multi-cloud on-premises public preview rollout run command security update management vm extensions
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    Windows Ambience: Multimodal, Agentic AI with Copilot+ for Enterprise

    Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...
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    Viva Insights: Copilot Analytics for Managers With Team Dashboards and Reports

    Microsoft’s Viva Insights will soon put Copilot analytics directly into the hands of frontline managers, delivering team-scoped dashboards, out-of-the-box Copilot reports, and a publishing pipeline for analysts to surface tailored insights — a change Microsoft says will begin rolling out in late...
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    • admin center adoption metrics analytics governance copilot analytics copilot for sales adoption dashboard data governance entra id frontline managers learning adoption licensing thresholds microsoft copilot privacy compliance public preview reports publishing team insights teams migration tenant rollout viva insights
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    Windows 365 Reserve: On-Demand Cloud PCs for Quick Endpoint Recovery

    Microsoft has quietly opened a gated public preview for Windows 365 Reserve, a new Microsoft service that delivers preconfigured, on‑demand Cloud PCs as a short‑term continuity option for organizations facing device failures, cyber incidents, or other interruptions that leave employees without a...
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    Windows 365 Reserve: Fast, Secure Temporary Cloud PCs for Business Continuity

    Microsoft’s Windows 365 lineup has a new tool in the business continuity toolkit: Windows 365 Reserve, a standalone subscription that hands each covered user a short allotment of temporary Cloud PC access to keep work moving when a primary endpoint goes offline. The service—now running in a...
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    • azure virtual desktop business continuity capacity constraints cloud pc data portability disaster recovery endpoint resilience entra gated preview intune known folder move onedrive provisioning public preview vdi windows 365 reserve zero trust
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    Microsoft Unveils Windows Backup for Organizations: Streamlined Data Protection & Migration

    Microsoft has unveiled Windows Backup for Organizations, a new enterprise-focused backup solution designed to streamline data protection and facilitate smoother transitions to Windows 11. Initially announced at Microsoft Ignite in November 2024, this tool has now entered a limited public preview...
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    • backup business continuity cloud backup data recovery data security device management device migration device resilience enterprise backup enterprise windows it infrastructure it management microsoft entra microsoft intune public preview system restoration windows backup
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