Microsoft Technology Briefing - June 2025

Explore the future of data analytics and governance with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview. Tailored for data engineers, architects, and AI specialists, this session dives into Microsoft’s vision for an AI-powered data ecosystem.

Upptäck de senaste förbättringarna i den uppdaterade M365 Copilot-appen. Fokus i detta webinar ligger på ny funktionalitet i Researcher Agent och Analyst Agent, samt viktiga nyheter för administratörer. Perfekt för dig som vill hålla dig uppdaterad om Copilot-utvecklingen.

Join a developer-focused experience designed to elevate your development practices and applications. This (200–300 level) event showcases the latest advancements in AI and technology through hands-on insights and inspiration.

In this 1-hour session designed for business leaders and decision makers, you’ll hear from Microsoft experts about the impact of Copilot and Agents, what successful AI adoption really looks like, and how to unlock value across your organization. You’ll receive actionable guidance, hear directly from customers sharing their real-work journey, and explore our new research on how AI and Agents are reshaping work across industries.

Black Hat USA returns to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas with a 6-day program. The event will open with four days of specialized cybersecurity Trainings (August 2-5), with courses for all skill levels. Also taking place during Black Hat USA is Summit Day on Tuesday, August 5, followed by the two-day main conference on August 6 & 7 featuring more than 100 selected Briefings, dozens of open-source tool demos in Arsenal, a robust Business Hall, networking and social events, and...

Join us at the next European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference #FabConEurope! 15-18 Sep 2025 in Vienna, Austria – the largest Microsoft tech conference in Europe. In partnership with Microsoft, the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference is brought to you by the team behind ESPC, Europe’s premier Microsoft 365 Conference and the European Power Platform Conference.

GitHub’s two-day developer event celebrating innovation, collaboration, and the boundless potential of AI-powered development.

Ignite possibilities. Get the edge you need to drive impact in the era of AI. Join us to bolster your knowledge, build connections, and explore emerging technologies. San Francisco, Moscone Center, November 18–21, 2025 (optional pre-day November 17).

Microsoft is proud to be named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025—which we believe reflects our deep investment in innovation and commitment to support SOC’s critical mission.

Microsoft Security Exposure Management's eBook helps educate teams on how to anticipate threats across hybrid environments, transforming risk into resilience.

Seventy-four percent of organizations surveyed experienced at least one data security incident with their business data exposed in the previous year as reported in Microsoft’s Data Security Index: Trends, insights, and strategies to secure data report.

Hear directly from Microsoft’s Deputy CISO for Customer Security, Ann Johnson, about the need for proactive planning in cyber incidents.

Microsoft will spotlight ​​its AI-first, end-to-end security platform at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. Read our blog post for details on how to connect with us there and a teaser of what to expect from our sessions.​​

Meet the minds behind how Microsoft prioritizes cybersecurity across every team and employee.

Learn why many CISOs prefer Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for comprehensive cyberthreat protection across devices and platforms.

To help security teams protect critical assets while ensuring business continuity, Microsoft Defender developed automatic attack disruption: a built-in self-defense capability.

Microsoft and CrowdStrike are teaming up to create alignment across our individual threat actor taxonomies to help security professionals connect insights faster.

Threat actors continue to develop and leverage various techniques that aim to compromise cloud identities. Despite advancements in protections like multifactor authentication (MFA) and passwordless solutions, social engineering remains a key aspect of phishing attacks. Implementing phishing-resistant solutions, like passkeys, can improve security against these evolving threats.

AI is becoming a part of everyday life and it's changing the way we do business. For business owners, the benefits are clear. It saves time, reduces the need for extra resources, and directly improves the bottom line. As part of Microsoft 365 Copilot*, we recently introduced the Create module, a new feature designed to make producing visual materials...

AI tools powered by out-of-the box LLMs and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) may not always understand your business in terms of specific processes, terminology, and style. They can provide results that are based on publicly available datasets and lack contextual awareness. Many AI solutions providers have turned to fine-tuning to address this. While fine-tuning offers a solution, making it...

The new Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience has become generally available since the beginning of May 2025. Millions of Teams customers use chats and channels daily and trust us with their mission-critical collaboration workflows. They expect Teams functionalities to always work and the experience to feel snappy and crafted.

In the fast-evolving world of collaboration tools, Microsoft Teams stands as a cornerstone of productivity. But as with any modern software, staying current isn’t just about accessing the latest features—it’s also about ensuring your tenant is up to date on the latest security, performance, and compliance. This is where the concept of Teams sedimentation becomes critical.

Empowering frontline workers isn’t just a business priority — it’s a strategic imperative. With the rapid acceleration of digital transformation across industries, organizations are reimagining how they connect, support, and elevate experiences for frontline employees...

The workplace is evolving, and so are the tools that power it. At the heart of this transformation is a shared goal: to create more meaningful connections, spark stronger collaboration, and make smarter use of every space. That’s where AI-driven innovation comes in...

Digital and hybrid events have evolved rapidly, and audiences now expect seamless, engaging experiences –-wherever they’re joining from. To meet and exceed those expectations, we’ve continued to invest in Town hall and Webinar in Teams , as announced last May, with features that help you deliver more meaningful, inclusive and wide-reaching experiences across your organization.

Users depend on Teams for collaboration from quick chats to mission critical meetings ; however, this experience can occasionally be disrupted by environmental or configuration challenges, resulting in issues such as application crashes, launch failures, update failures, and more.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Researcher and Analyst, two first-of-their-kind reasoning agents designed specifically for work.

In this edition of our monthly roundup, we're recapping the biggest news from Microsoft Build 2025 and announcing new resources for Copilot Studio adoption and training.

Take a deep dive into Athena, an AI-powered collaborative agent, to learn how it was built and how to create your own version of Athena right within Microsoft Teams.

In today's fast-paced business environment, frontline workers play a crucial role in ensuring operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. Microsoft Frontline Solutions offer a comprehensive suite of tools designed to empower these workers, streamline processes, and enhance productivity...

To support you on your successful adoption journey, we're excited to announce the launch of the newly refreshed Power Platform Adoption Guidance. This update is the most significant evolution of our adoption content to date.

We’re excited to announce that Power Pages AI usage analytics and governance controls are now available in public preview through the Copilot Hub in the Power Platform admin center With AI capabilities becoming core to digital experiences, organizations need visibility and control over how these features are used. The Copilot Hub in the Power Platform...

Build 2025 Sessions We had a great set of sessions at Microsoft Build, you can watch the recordings on demand to catch up! AI-powered Development Check out what’s new in this month’s Power Apps Pulse! Make plans for your existing solutions, import data from multiple worksheets in an Excel workbook, get rich AI-powered summaries of...

Here are some of the Dataverse announcements from Microsoft Build. With so many new capabilities, here are all our key sessions in one place. To learn more about these exciting updates, read the full Dataverse Build blog. Microsoft Dataverse is the secure, scalable agent platform that extends agents with enterprise data. As agents evolve to...

With Microsoft Dynamics 365, organizations are embracing a modern, AI-first approach that redefines productivity and customer engagement.

Great customer service depends on delivering great personalized experiences. To meet these expectations, companies need to commit to keeping up with ever-evolving customer needs across every stage of that journey.

Based on conversations at the 2025 Gartner CFO Conference, here are three things finance leaders should know about getting started with agents and AI.

Unifying insights, governance, and AI-driven productivity for the modern enterprise We’re excited to announce the new Copilot Hub experience in the Power Platform Admin Center, unveiled at Microsoft Build, which brings a host of improvements based on your feedback. This updated experience provides Power Platform and environment admins with a central place for Copilot management...

Introduction Long-Term Retention (LTR) is one of data management tools that helps enterprises effectively manage their growing data estates while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. By archiving less frequently accessed data, LTR optimizes Dataverse storage usage and reduces costs. Long-Term Retention (LTR) in Dataverse helps organizations retain data that’s no longer actively used but still...

Turning Hidden Data into Actionable Insights: Why Manual Processes Are Failing Your Business In every organization, data fuels critical business processes. Yet, much of this data is trapped in formats and workflows that make it difficult to access, understand, and use effectively. A common example is invoices arriving as PDF attachments via email—disconnected from the...

See the latest AI sales transformation offering from Microsoft and agents to help sales teams nurture and close deals.

We’re pleased to introduce a key usability enhancement for lists in Power Pages: Natural Language (NL) Search. This feature empowers users to effortlessly filter and retrieve data using intuitive conversational queries powered by AI or straightforward text-based searches. Feature Overview Natural Language Search enables users to interact with list data in a more intuitive and...

You can now configure Azure Container Apps and Azure Functions as Private Link enabled origins in your Front Door Premium profile. Private Link enabled origins in Front Door allow you to deliver content to your end-users through public Front Door endpoint...

This blog breaks down the available pricing and deployment options, and tools that support scalable, cost-conscious AI deployments.

Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in.

We’ve pulled together the top 25 announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 across the Azure business—spanning Azure AI Foundry, Azure infrastructure, Azure app platform, Azure databases and Microsoft Fabric, and our GitHub family.

Azure Advisor has improved its VM right-sizing recommendations by extending coverage for newer VM series. This broader SKU coverage across the D, E, and F VM families enables a more comprehensive evaluation of CPU performance, providing your teams with re...

We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has been recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025.

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security has reached general availability. This integration supports both Azure Front Door WAF and Azure Application Gateway WAF. By integrating Azure WAF with the Security Copilot...

The migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL now simplifies the process of moving your PostgreSQL databases to Azure with support for PostgreSQL 17. The migration service offers migration options from various PostgreSQL-supported sources, includ...

Announcing that you can now use user-assigned managed identity and system-assigned managed identity Entra authentication to connect your Azure Database for PostgreSQL instance with Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory. This feature enhances secu...

Azure Quota Groups is now generally available, offering improved flexibility and control for Enterprise Agreement (EA) and internal customers. This feature enables quota sharing across a group of subscriptions, reducing the number of individual quota tran...

Azure Firewall enhances the DNAT rule configuration to support port translations on its Private IP address. DNAT on Azure Firewall Private IP address helps connect overlapped IP networks, which is a common scenario for enterprises when onboarding new part...

We are announcing the general availability of private subnet functionality in Azure. Currently, when virtual machines are created in a virtual network without any explicit outbound connectivity, they are assigned a default outbound public IP address. Thes...

Introduction Whether you’re building analytics pipelines or conversational AI systems, the risk of exposing sensitive data is real. AI models trained on unfiltered datasets can inadvertently memorize and regurgitate PII, leading to compliance violations and reputational damage. This blog explores how to build scalable, secure, and compliant data workflows using PySpark, Microsoft Presidio, and Faker—covering …

SQL Server 2025 is the most significant release for SQL developers in the last decade and will help streamline application development and greatly reduce complexity.

An AI Center of Excellence helps align business strategy, people, and technology decisions around AI.

We’re proud to share that Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.

Defend your AI systems with Prompt Shields—a unified API that analyzes inputs to your LLM-based solution to guard against direct and indirect threats.

It’s been almost 3 months since we announced OneLake security at FabCon 2025 in Las Vegas, and while the interest has not slowed down, we’ve also been working behind the scenes to improve the feature and address your feedback. In this blog post, we’ll go through some of the latest updates on OneLake security including …

SQL native Scalar user-defined functions (UDFs) in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoint are now in preview. A scalar UDF is a custom code implemented in T-SQL that accepts parameters, performs an action such as complex calculation, and returns a result of that action as a single value. They can contain local variables, calls …

Co-author: Alexei Robsky, Data Scientist Manager Overview As organizations increasingly rely on real-time data to drive decisions, the need for intelligent, responsive systems has never been greater. At the heart of this transformation is Fabric Real-Time Intelligence (RTI), a platform that empowers users to act on data as it arrives. Today, we’re excited to announce …

The Eventstreams artifact in the Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence experience lets you bring real-time events into Fabric, transform them, and then route them to various destinations such as Eventhouse, without writing any code (no-code). You can ingest data from an Eventstream to Eventhouse seamlessly either from Eventstream artifact or Eventhouse Get Data Wizard. This capability …

Have you ever found yourself frustrated by inconsistent item creation? Maybe you’ve struggled to select the right workspace or folder when creating a new item or ended up with a cluttered workspace due to accidental item creation. We hear you—and we’re excited to introduce the new item creation experience in Fabric! This update is designed …

Introduction Integrating Azure API Management (APIM) with Microsoft Fabric’s API for GraphQL can significantly enhance your API’s capabilities by providing robust scalability and security features such as identity management, rate limiting, and caching. This post will guide you through the process of setting up and configuring these features. You may not be familiar with API …

We’re excited to announce Surge Protection for background operations is now Generally Available (GA). Using surge protection, capacity admins can limit overuse by background operations in their capacities.

We’re committed to helping organizations simplify connectivity, modernize legacy systems, and unlock the full potential of AI-powered automation.

Unlocking a New DevOps Era GitHub Copilot for Azure was first introduced at Ignite 2024 as a public preview, empowering developers, IT operators, and DevOps practitioners to leverage natural language to provision, configure, and manage resources within their own Azure environments. Since then, many have used GitHub Copilot for Azure as an AI-powered developer assistant...

We have contributed the following four pull requests to add Azure OpenAI support to Codex, letting you enjoy the same Codex experience as in ChatGPT while running securely on Azure: PR #769 PR #1324 PR #1321 PR #92 (work in progress – Entra ID token-based authentication) We are collaborating with OpenAI on additional updates and integrations, so stay tuned.

We’re excited to announce that one of our most-requested features is officially in Public Preview: You can now create Dev Boxes on behalf of your developers. Waiting around to get started is a thing of the past. Whether you’re onboarding a new hire, running a hackathon, or setting up for a customer demo, this feature makes it...

As organizations scale their development efforts, managing access to cloud resources becomes critical. Platform engineers need to strike a balance between enforcing governance and enabling developer agility. At Build 2025, we announced the general availability of project policies in Microsoft Dev Box, which provides a powerful way to improve resource control and governance for cloud...

Cost is one of the most important concerns in any cloud-native rollout. IT admins need powerful tools to control costs without slowing development. At Build 2025, we were excited to announce the general availability of hibernation in Microsoft Dev Box. This feature empowers platform engineers to optimize resource usage while empowering developers to get what...

AI can help you code faster, but knowing why the code works—and sharpening your human-in-the-loop skills—is what makes you a great developer.

Learn how to build your first space in minutes and customize Copilot to match your team's unique coding style and workflows.

The open source Git project just released Git 2.50. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale.

Have you tried the new coding agent in GitHub Copilot? Here’s how developers are using it to work more efficiently.

Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it’s now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. Agent mode turns GitHub Copilot into an autonomous pair programmer capable of handling multi-step development tasks from end to end. It builds a plan, executes it, adapts along the way, and loops through tasks until...

Explore insights into how manufacturers prioritize technology and where AI fits by reading the report "Artificial Intelligence in Process Manufacturing."

As the mining industry undergoes its digital and AI transformation, Microsoft remains committed to delivering innovative and secure solutions.

According to the LinkedIn Learning Workplace Learning Report 2024 , “Tomorrow’s success requires skills agility —harnessing the right skills at the right time for the right work.” And if you’re aiming to earn a Microsoft Certification, you’re building and validating just that—your skills agility. Earning a Microsoft Certification not only helps you stay current with the latest technology but can also equip you with the skills and best practices to effectively tackle real-world challenges in...

Savvy engineers are always on the lookout for ways to enhance their productivity and improve their collaboration. The introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot has brought about a significant transformation in the way our engineers work here at Microsoft. Tools like GitHub Copilot and Copilot Studio have become essential for streamlining coding tasks, but the real...

Like the computer itself and electricity before it, AI is a transformational technology. It’s providing never-before-seen opportunities to reimagine productivity, address major social challenges, and democratize access to technology and knowledge. As AI reshapes how we work and live, it brings with it both transformative potential and complex challenges. Across the industry, concerns about bias,

Microsoft and F5 are collaborating on Phase 2 of the OpenTelemetry with Apache Arrow project.

Microsoft Teams Rooms is a conference room tech solution for today’s AI-powered workplace. It features modernized Microsoft Teams technologies optimized for hybrid work environments, and it has had a positive impact on productivity since being installed in thousands of conference rooms across Microsoft’s campuses. When Teams Rooms was initially deployed in 2019, the focus was...

At TM Forum DTW Ignite 2025, Microsoft is demonstrating how the complementary relationship between ODA and agentic AI converts ambitions into measurable business outcomes.

Editor’s note: This story was created with the help of artificial intelligence. To learn more about how Inside Track is using the power of generative AI to augment our human staff, see our story, Reimagining content creation with our Azure AI-powered Inside Track story bot. Technology is constantly transforming the way we work—and AI is...

Editor’s note: This story was created with the help of artificial intelligence. To learn more about how Inside Track is using the power of generative AI to augment our human staff, see our story, Reimagining content creation with our Azure AI-powered Inside Track story bot. When you’re responsible for processing over $500 billion in transactions...

At Microsoft, we operate one of the world’s largest IT infrastructures. So, when we embarked on the journey nearly a decade ago to move from a primarily on-premises network of physical servers to one that now operates almost entirely in the Azure cloud, it was a mammoth undertaking. And like all long and rewarding journeys,

Microsoft Quantum is continuing to move the global quantum ecosystem forward, putting it within reach of experts and nonexperts alike.