Microsoft’s new Agent Factory narrative makes a simple but decisive argument: building a single clever agent is no longer enough—real business value arrives when agents, tools, and enterprise systems interoperate through open protocols, enterprise connectors, and built‑in governance so agents...
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-49734 describes an improper restriction of a communication channel in Windows PowerShell—a flaw in the PowerShell Direct pathway that can let an authorized local attacker elevate privileges on an affected host if the required conditions are...
Former Parallo engineers Shaun Webber, Symon Thurlow and Jay Strydom have quietly reassembled to launch Spotto.ai, an AI-native Azure cloud optimisation platform aimed squarely at MSPs and SaaS teams wrestling with runaway cloud bills and fragmented operations. (reseller.co.nz, spotto.app)...
Title: CVE-2025-55242 — "Xbox Certification Bug / Copilot Django" Information-Disclosure: what admins need to know and do now
TL;DR
Microsoft has published a Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-55242 describing an information‑disclosure bug that can cause the exposure of sensitive...
Note: I tried to open the MSRC link you gave (Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center). I could not find any published advisory or public record for CVE‑2025‑55244 on Microsoft’s Update Guide or the major CVE/NVD indexes. Instead, Microsoft’s published Azure Bot Framework /...
Breaking Down CVE-2025-54914 — Azure Networking Elevation‑of‑Privilege (what admins need to know)
Summary
Microsoft has published a Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-54914, an elevation‑of‑privilege issue that Microsoft lists under its Azure Networking surface. Administrators should...
Satya Nadella’s five short Copilot prompts are less a CEO flex and more a practical playbook for turning generative AI into repeatable executive work — from meeting readiness and project rollups to launch probabilities and time audits — and the implications for Windows and Microsoft 365 admins...
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Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — is more than a CEO productivity trick: it’s a clear demonstration of how next‑generation copilots can become an executive’s persistent, context‑aware chief‑of‑staff. (ndtv.com)...
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Azure Arc gives Hyper‑V administrators a new, cloud‑centric management plane that complements — not replaces — established tools like System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Windows Admin Center (WAC), Hyper‑V Manager and PowerShell, and this guide walks through practical onboarding...
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Azure Arc is becoming the practical replacement many enterprises need after Microsoft signaled the deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and for organizations that want to centralize patching across on-premises servers and Azure VMs the recommended route is to Arc‑enable servers...
Microsoft’s August wave of Microsoft 365 updates pushes a clear signal: productivity is being re-engineered around AI-first workflows, tighter security controls, and admin-grade manageability — and many of the features arriving this cycle are designed to reduce friction for everyday users while...
Generative AI is rapidly moving from experimental pilots into day‑to‑day HR operations, and Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem — together with specialist vendors and regional HR platforms — is already being used to automate recruiting, personalize onboarding, and surface people analytics, even as...
Microsoft's new Windows Backup for Organizations landed in Microsoft’s enterprise rollout this summer, promising a way for managed tenants to preserve a user’s Windows settings and Microsoft Store app list in the cloud and replay that state automatically during device enrollment — but it is...
Microsoft’s new Windows Backup for Organizations arrives as a focused, cloud‑native lifeline for IT teams wrestling with mass device refreshes and the ongoing Windows 10 → Windows 11 migration — but it’s important to understand exactly what it does, what it doesn’t, and how to deploy it safely...
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Microsoft’s Windows Backup for Organizations has moved out of limited preview and into general availability for commercial customers — a tenant-scoped, Intune-integrated service that captures curated Windows settings and Microsoft Store app manifests to accelerate device refreshes, reimages, and...
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Microsoft’s new Windows Backup for Organizations lands in the enterprise as a tightly scoped, Intune-integrated way to preserve Windows settings and Microsoft Store app lists in the cloud — but it is not a replacement for disk imaging, file-level backups, or full disaster recovery...
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Microsoft's latest move to centralize and simplify enterprise patching — pushing Azure Update Manager as the recommended path for orchestrating Windows updates across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid fleets — promises to change how IT teams plan, schedule, and recover from update events while also...
Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into...
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Microsoft’s new cloud-managed remote mailbox capability finally gives hybrid organizations a supported, auditable path to stop running an on‑premises Exchange server purely for recipient management — and it changes the rules for how Exchange attributes are governed in hybrid environments. The...
Microsoft has finally delivered a long‑requested capability for hybrid Exchange customers: you can now transfer the Source of Authority for Exchange mailbox attributes of directory‑synchronized users into the cloud and manage those mailbox properties directly from Exchange Online. The...