Microsoft Technology Briefing - December 2025

Vill du ligga steget före i den snabba teknikutvecklingen? Missa inte chansen att ta del av de allra senaste nyheterna inom Copilot och agenter! Vi har nöjet att bjuda in dig till detta webinar som fokuserar på de senaste nyheterna inom agenter.

Are you ready to build real AI solutions and tackle challenges hands-on? Join us for a practical, hands-on hackathon focused on Predictive Maintenance for Manufacturing companies. You’ll work through real-world challenges, collaborate with peers, and learn from Microsoft specialists. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Det här webbinariet fokuserar på hur vi går från silos till säkerhet och hur Microsoft Sentinel driver framtidens cyberförsvar. Registrering öppnar snart...

Join the Agentic AI & DevOps Days roadshow - an exclusive, hands-on technical event for Builders & Innovators across EMEA. Dive deep into the latest advancements in agentic AI, DevOps automation, and the Azure AI platform. Experience live demos, real-world use cases, and hands-on labs designed to empower you to build, deploy, and scale intelligent solutions. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Join the Agentic AI & DevOps Days roadshow - an exclusive, hands-on technical event for Builders & Innovators across EMEA. Dive deep into the latest advancements in agentic AI, DevOps automation, and the Azure AI platform. Experience live demos, real-world use cases, and hands-on labs designed to empower you to build, deploy, and scale intelligent solutions. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Join us for this free, one-day event and learn how to become a frontier leader in AI. Gain expert insight from Microsoft leaders, alongside other innovators driving real change. Discover how you can enrich employee experiences, reinvent customer engagement, and reshape business processes with the latest AI technology. Avicii Arena, Globentorget 2, Stockholm.

Join us for this free, one-day event and learn how to become a frontier leader in AI. Gain expert insight from Microsoft leaders, alongside other innovators driving real change. Discover how you can enrich employee experiences, reinvent customer engagement, and reshape business processes with the latest AI technology. Registrations open soon.

Explore the new Microsoft e-book on how a unified, AI-ready platform delivers speed, resilience, and measurable security gains.

An Access Fabric is a unified access security solution that continuously decides who can access what, from where, and under what conditions—in real time.

CVE-2025-55182 (also referred to as React2Shell and includes CVE-2025-66478, which was merged into it) is a critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting React Server Components and related frameworks.

Today, we are proud to share that Microsoft has been recognized as an overall leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense.

Fake employees are an emerging cybersecurity threat. Learn how they infiltrate organizations and what steps you can take to protect your business.

The insights gained from Cybersecurity Awareness Month, right through to Microsoft Ignite 2025, demonstrate that security remains a top priority for business leaders.

Microsoft’s latest benchmarking report reveals how layered email defenses perform, offering real-world insights to strengthen protection and reduce risk.

The Shai‑Hulud 2.0 supply chain attack represents one of the most significant cloud-native ecosystem compromises observed recently. Attackers maliciously modified hundreds of publicly available packages, targeting developer environments, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and cloud-connected workloads to harvest credentials and configuration secrets. The Shai‑Hulud 2.

Cyber defense is evolving. Find out how graph-powered strategies and AI can help organizations detect threats faster and improve security hygiene.

To bolster security for our customers, we need to align with our ecosystem partners. Our new collaboration with Beazley as an incident response partner is a step in that direction.

Today we are announcing expanded availability of AI, security, and management capabilities coming to Microsoft 365 offerings in 2026.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of immersive events in Teams ! This milestone brings 3D event experiences natively into Teams, making it easier to host engaging, interactive events that bring people together on PC, Mac, and Meta Quest devices. With immersive events, organizers can create tailored 3D environments where attendees join as avatars, interact naturally, and feel truly present.

For background, check out last year's Nov 2024 IT Admin update . Here's this year's progress and summary: Many key governance, lifecycle, and compliance features for Loop workspaces and Copilot Pages & Notebooks are now available. Learn more here Key deliverables remaining: M365 Group enforcement for shared Loop workspaces Departed User workflows for Copilot Pages, Notebooks, and the My workspace in Loop Multi-Geo Create in user's PDL for shared Loop workspaces Read the rest for details What’s..

Track Adoption Trends and Export Insights with Copilot and Agent Analytics At Ignite 2025, we unveiled key updates to Copilot and Agent Analytics, introducing new features designed to address a critical challenge facing organizations in their AI transformation journey: the need for actionable, transparent insights into Copilot and agent impact and adoption.

We are excited to announce general availability for the SharePoint Framework 1.22. This time focus is primarily on updating the build toolchain and to address npm audit issues.

Today we’re excited to bring OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Today, we are excited to announce that the public preview of Sales agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot is now available. Sales agent brings insights from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, emails, meetings, enterprise content stores and other sales applications, into the flow of work. It brings together customer context from across your organization while helping ensure everything aligns with existing CRM security permissions.

Welcome to What’s new in Teams, Ignite 2025 edition! This year at Microsoft Ignite we’re excited to share all the ways that Teams + Copilot are amplifying collaboration, automating workflows, and enhancing productivity. With Copilot and agents in chats, meetings, and channels, Teams and Copilot together provide a powerful solution. One new feature I’m excited to share is Teams Mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

November 2025 was a busy month for Microsoft Copilot Studio, marked by major announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2025 and a wave of new features now rolling out to makers.

What’s new Today we’re excited to announce the Public Preview of Cross-tenant Orchestrated User Data Migration (UDM) , a new set of capabilities that help IT teams move user mailboxes, files, and collaboration assets between Microsoft 365 tenants with greater speed, predictability, and control. Whether you’re consolidating after a merger, divesting a business unit, or reorganizing globally, this Public Preview brings a guided, endtoend migration experience that reduces manual steps and helps...

Welcome to the special edition of What's new in Microsoft 365 Copilot for both November and December 2025! Every edition, we highlight new features and enhancements to keep Microsoft 365 admins up to date with Copilot features that help your users be more productive and efficient in the apps they use every day. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new in the last months of 2025: User capabilities: Work IQ enhancements Improvements to quality and agent performance in Copilot Chat Updated...

Microsoft Ignite 2025 brought a wave of exciting updates for admins, focusing on enhanced visibility, control and efficiency in management of AI-powered experiences. Here’s a deeper dive into the key features released to public preview, general availability, or announced and planned for release in the coming weeks. Copilot Control System – Management controls updates Copilot Control System (CCS) is Microsoft’s integrated framework for governing and managing Microsoft 365 Copilot at scale.

Announcing the Microsoft Sales Bench—a new collection of benchmarks designed to assess the performance of your AI-powered sales agents. Learn more.

Sales Qualification Agent (SQA) is not a simple productivity tool—it is a complex multi-step agent directly influencing revenue outcomes. The Sales Qualification Bench represents a foundational step toward enterprise-grade trust, transparency, and continuous quality improvement for agentic AI in sales.

Rental operations succeed when every handoff--from quoting to return--is coordinated and timely. The forthcoming capabilities bring structure and clarity to these moments. They are designed to help organizations accelerate deal cycles, improve asset utilization, enhance customer satisfaction, and reduce reliance on custom or manual processes. By unifying these processes inside Dynamics 365, leveraging the composability of Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, Project Operations, and...

At Convergence 2025, December 9–12, we’ll explore how organizations can build an AI-first autonomous enterprise powered by data, copilots, and agents working together across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Microsoft Cloud.

Leveraging recent breakthroughs in agentic AI, the new system delivers answers that are more relevant, contextual, and accurate to your specific business data. Think of it as an intelligent assistant that not only understands your question but figures out the best way to answer it using an adaptive reasoning process.

Process Maps in Power Apps Plans are now generally available, bringing a new level of clarity and collaboration to solution design. This feature allows makers and stakeholders to visualize workflows directly within their plans, ensuring alignment before development begins. By turning complex processes into clear, interactive diagrams, teams can make smarter decisions, reduce risk, and accelerate delivery.

Dataverse is increasing baseline capacity across business applications (Dynamics 365 and Power Platform)

You can now create a plan directly from your existing solution, giving you a clear, structured view of what you’ve built and where you can take it next.

Harness the power of Dataverse business data with the open-source Dataverse SDK for Python...

We are announcing the general availability of the Perth Azure Extended Zone. Azure Extended Zones are small-footprint extensions of Azure placed in metro areas, industry centers, or specific jurisdictions, to serve low latency and data residency workloa...

We are extending Azure public regions with options that adapt to our customers’ evolving business requirements without forcing trade-offs.

Bandwidth metrics for Azure Load Balancer are now published with metric dimension Protocol. When retrieving or viewing Byte, Packet, and SYN Count metrics in the Azure portal, you will now see the dimension Protocol. TCP traffic is denoted by Protocol=6,

Now you can upgrade the pg_squeeze extension to version 1.9.1 in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Learn more.

Now you can install the ip4r extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. Ip4r provides efficient storage and indexing functionality for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and ranges. Learn more.

Now you can install the credcheck extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. The credcheck extension helps you to enforce password and credential validation policies directly within PostgreSQL. Learn more.

Zonal Placement for Azure Files Premium LRS is now GA in select regions! This capability gives you explicit control over zone locality by pinning storage accounts to a specific availability zone, enabling high availability, fault isolation, and predictabl...

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 is a US government standard that defines minimum security requirements for cryptographic modules in information technology products and systems. Azure Application Gateway V2 now supports FIPS mode,

Whether you are improving the resilience of mission-critical workloads or modernizing legacy systems; Azure Storage has a solution for you.

Azure Sphere OS version 25.12 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. Whilst this release encompasses no customer-facing changes, it represents significant under-the-hood build system changes, as such, this release will operate for an ext...

The retirement date for default outbound access has been extended to March 31, 2026. This change aligns with the broader Azure Virtual Network (VNet) update and replaces the previously communicated September 30, 2025 date. Starting March 31, 2026, newly c...

In mid-December 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Identify causes that auto-resume serverless workloads using Activity Log in Azure SQL Database to troubleshoot and optimize access patterns. Learn more.

A decade-long partnership between Microsoft and Red Hat has redefined what open innovation means, empowering customers with flexible, secure, and scalable solutions across the cloud.

Explore Mistral Large 3 in Azure—open-source, long-context, multimodal AI built for reliable enterprise workloads.

Microsoft is modernizing SQL tools with AI, SSMS, Visual Studio Code, and DevOps features to boost productivity and future-proof development.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, efficiency, and adaptability are essential. Organizations are under constant pressure to streamline processes, reduce complexity, and deliver results faster. Dataflow Gen2 rises to meet these challenges by combining the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the simplicity of natural language prompts. This approach enables teams to transform workflows and unlock …

We’re launching a new community contest inviting you to build innovative workload concepts that showcase what’s possible with the Fabric Extensibility Toolkit.

Building a Petabyte-scale Data Platform with Fabric and SQL Telemetry and Intelligence Engineering team.

Unlock Flexible Time-Based Reporting with DATE_BUCKET() in Microsoft Fabric DW! Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse continues to evolve with powerful features that make analytics easier and more adaptable. One of the latest additions is the DATE_BUCKET() function—a game-changer for time-based reporting.

Here is the December 2025 release of the on-premises data gateway (version 3000.298).

As data becomes more immediate, the gap between when an event occurs and when you must use its insights is getting smaller. Fabric Eventstreams enables users to ingest, transform, extract insights and route streaming data where it’s needed. In response to the growing demand for SQL-based transformations, we have introduced a new SQL operator feature …

Following Azure DevOps Service Principal & Cross Tenant Support (Generally Available) announcement for service principal and cross-tenant support – Microsoft Fabric Git Integration with Azure DevOps (ADO), this blog post serves as a guide to connecting Fabric workspaces to Azure DevOps repositories using service principal. Fabric Git Integration is the foundation for organizations implementing fully …

The Spark job definition activity in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory pipelines now supports connection property, unlocking a more secure and production-ready way to run your SJDs. What’s New? With this update, you can configure Notebook activities to run as Service Principal (SPN) or Workspace Identity (WI). These authentication methods are our recommended approach for production …

Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the Fabric Influencers Spotlight, a recurring monthly post here to shine a bright light on the places on the internet where Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users are doing some amazing work on all aspects of Microsoft Fabric. The Microsoft Fabric Community team has created the Fabric Influencers Spotlight to …

Visual Studio 2026 introduces new GitHub Copilot capabilities to support C++ developers in three development tasks: Performing large-scale C++ refactors Improving C++ build performance Upgrading Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools These experiences are available now as a Private Preview in Visual Studio 2026. Install Visual Studio 2026 and join the waitlist for Private Preview today. C++ code editing tools for GitHub...

Run multiple Copilot agents from one place. Learn prompt techniques, how to spot drift early, and how to review agent work efficiently.

This guide covers setting up Claude Code CLI and VS Code extension with Microsoft Foundry, configuring CLAUDE.md for project context, integrating Spec Kit for structured development, and running Claude Code in GitHub Actions. Prerequisites Azure subscription with Foundry access Node.js 18+ (for Claude Code CLI) Optional: Azure CLI installed (az login completed) Step 1: Deploy...

Use partner-built Copilot agents to debug, secure, and automate engineering workflows across your terminal, editor, and github.com.

There are many scenarios where Copilot Chat can feel limited by the built-in model training data. Maybe you want guidance on the latest web framework, documentation, or project-specific resources—but Copilot’s responses just aren’t specific enough. For developers who rely on up-to-date or esoteric answers, this gap can be a real frustration. URL Context: Bringing the web into Copilot Chat With the new URL context feature, Copilot Chat can now access...

Ever since MCP launched, every customer has asked the same thing: “How does a private MCP registry actually work, and how do we configure it for our enterprise?”. So today, on a snowy, freezing Friday in Zurich, I grabbed a coffe, opened the GitHub docs, dove into Azure API Center portal, and decided to write the...

In November, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

A look at how we rebuilt GitHub Actions’ core architecture and shipped long-requested upgrades to improve performance, workflow flexibility, reliability, and everyday developer experience.

We envision the future of AI-enabled tooling to look like near-effortless engineering for sustainability. We call it Continuous Efficiency.

Here on the Visual Studio team, our top priority is making your coding experience smoother and more enjoyable. And that begins with truly listening to your feedback. We understand that sometimes sharing your thoughts can feel like tossing bug reports and suggestions into a black hole. It doesn’t feel good, and we get it. But...

It starts the way these things always start. A red build. A failing test. And that quiet, sinking feeling of “This worked yesterday.” Meet Sam. Sam’s not a junior, not a rockstar, just a solid developer who’s shipped enough code to know that bugs don’t care how confident you feel on Monday morning. That test failure does not offer much help...

1. Introduction AI coding agents/assistants such as GitHub Copilot have become common in modern software engineering workflows. Their strengths—rapid pattern completion, context-aware suggestions, and the ability to learn style from local code—stem from broad training on large corpora of public, general-purpose code. They perform best when the languages, libraries, and idioms requested by developers align...

When it comes to powering Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption rates internally here at Microsoft, it’s game on. Literally. We were the first enterprise to fully deploy Copilot in 2024, and now, not two years later, our use of the company’s signature generative AI product is maturing. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team...

Microsoft Viva Engage is a critical tool for communicating with our employees internally here at Microsoft. It’s where our employees go to have two-way dialogue, our leaders use it to engage with their teams, and it’s how we listen and respond to our employees at scale. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team...

Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT team, is rapidly transforming into a Frontier IT Firm—an organization fundamentally restructured for the AI era, where AI-agents are digital colleagues rather than peripheral tools. “Agents are the most significant technological change we’ve seen since the shift to the cloud, and arguably since the advent of the Internet. They represent...

AI has rapidly evolved from trendy buzzword to critical business tool. Across industries and roles, this powerful technology is transforming how we work. From marketing and human resources to finance and operations, teams are using AI to create, analyze, and collaborate in ways we couldn’t even imagine a few years ago. And it’s not just for developers or IT pros anymore. AI is fast becoming part of daily workflows for nearly everyone.

Financial services businesses are busily adopting agentic AI, with Frontier Firms leading transformation. Here are five critical predictors of success that will differentiate the leaders in 2026.

Microsoft and its partners accelerate industrial AI innovations at ITAP 2025 and Microsoft Ignite 2025, driving manufacturing innovation and collaboration worldwide.

Announcing the Product Change Management agent template preview—an AI-powered solution that transforms how manufacturers manage change across equipment, products, processes, and more.

Microsoft helps mining transform with AI and agentic tech—boosting productivity, sustainability, and innovation for Frontier Firms.

At the 2025 Scottsdale Institute CISO Summit, healthcare leaders are rethinking cybersecurity, including how collaboration and training build resilience across healthcare systems.

Accelerate innovation in consumer goods by unifying data with AI, reducing launch risks, and aligning with market trends.