Microsoft Technology Briefing - June 2026

I över tjugo år har Microsoft varit en aktiv deltagare i samhällsdebatterna under Almedalsveckan. Även i år ser vi fram emot att bidra med vår expertis kring teknikens potential för att stärka Sveriges konkurrenskraft. Träffa våra experter som är på plats. Vi medverkar i ett stort antal seminarier och dialoger om hur digitalisering, cybersäkerhet och AI:s utveckling påverkar vårt samhälle.

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) looks forward to hosting BlueHat Asia 2026! We are excited to officially announce our September 17-18 conference in Singapore.

GitHub’s flagship developer event uniting humans, agents, and the world’s code to build what’s next. October 28–29 / San Francisco, CA. in-person & virtual.

Explore the latest innovations, hear practical insights, and build skills you can apply right away. Microsoft Ignite is at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, November 17–20, 2026, with an optional pre-day on November 16. The online event is November 17–19, 2026.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified an active multi-stage intrusion campaign targeting hospitality organizations in Europe and Asia. The campaign uses photo-themed ZIP archives and fake image shortcut files to deliver a persistent Node.js implant and evade detection.

Microsoft named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026, with the highest scores in the current offering and strategy categories.

Learn how CNAPP platforms are helping organizations prioritize exploitable risks, reduce exposure, and operationalize security across the application lifecycle.

On June 24, 2026, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) facilitated the takedown, suspension, and blocking of domains that formed the backbone of the StealC and Amadey infrastructure. This blog is a technical breakdown of StealC and Amadey.

What happens when threat actors target what AI remembers? Microsoft breaks down the risks and the defenses.

Ransomware case reveals two parallel threat actors, blending tactics and evasion—showing why isolated signals can often miss modern, overlapping cyberattacks.

AutoJack is a novel exploit chain showing how a single malicious webpage can turn an AI browsing agent into a remote code execution vector on the host machine. By abusing trust in localhost, missing authentication, and unsafe parameter handling, attackers can trigger arbitrary process execution through AutoGen Studio’s MCP WebSocket. The research highlights a broader pattern - when agents can browse untrusted content and access local services, traditional boundaries like localhost are no longer.

New Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study shows Microsoft Security consolidation delivers ROI, lowers risk, and prepares organizations to secure AI.

A poisoned npm package infected 140+ projects with a hidden payload. This report highlights how to detect, hunt, and defend against supply chain attacks using Microsoft Defender and actionable threat intelligence.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzed a cryptocurrency clipper campaign that combines clipboard theft, wallet replacement, Tor-based communications, and worm-like propagation. Beyond stealing cryptocurrency transactions, the malware establishes persistent access and enables follow-on activity through a lightweight backdoor capability.

Learn what’s new in Copilot Studio, May 2026: computer-using agents are now generally available, plus redesigned workflows and Work IQ extensibility.

In most organizations, finance is a small but mighty strategic partner to the business, supporting enterprise-wide decisions while managing core processes from record-to-report and source-to-pay to forecast-to-plan. The insights and guidance finance teams produce are more than just outputs of these processes; they form the foundation for critical decisions that shape how the business operates and grows.

Keeping Microsoft 365 Apps up to date is essential for security, reliability, and access to new features. When an update does not complete successfully, however, identifying the issue and understanding its impact across devices can take time. Today, we’re announcing general availability of update health in cloud update in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center.

We're announcing the private preview of Frontier Tuning, a new approach to making AI work the way your business does by applying reinforcement learning inside your compliance boundary with your own data, processes, and conventions.

Microsoft Scout is integrated across the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day, keeping it grounded in your flow of work.

Work IQ provides a workplace intelligence layer that enables agents to access and reason over organizational data, context, and tools, continuously building a semantic understanding across Microsoft 365 and external systems with built-in, permission-aware governance.

Welcome to the May 2026 edition of What's New in Microsoft 365 Copilot! Every month, 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 this month: User capabilities: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is now available Refreshed design, Notebooks enhancements, and Apple CarPlay for the Microsoft 365 Copilot app GPT-5.

It's hard to believe May is over already! You may have noticed this edition of What's new in Teams is landing a few days later than usual — that's intentional. We're publishing alongside Microsoft Build , our annual developer conference where we showcase the latest in AI, agents, and the tools that help developers. It's one of the most energizing weeks of the year, full of announcements, hands-on sessions, and a first look at where the platform is headed.

We’re introducing workplace check-in via Wi-Fi for Microsoft Places and Teams, designed to help employees coordinate in-person work by keeping their workplace location up to date when they’re in the office. This capability builds on existing Microsoft 365 presence signals like calendar availability and Teams presence by making workplace location easier to keep current.

Cowork is the fastest growing feature in the history of our Frontier program, and Cowork has among the highest user satisfaction of any Copilot or agent experience we have shipped.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is brilliant with words - but work isn't only words. Introducing SharePoint Copilot Apps: bring rich, interactive UX components straight into the Copilot canvas, built with any JavaScript stack your team already knows. Reuse your existing SPFx investments across Copilot, SharePoint, and Teams - no new platform, no infrastructure, no lock-in.

Meet Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, to help every employee build Copilot and AI skills where the work gets done. It provides personalized recommendations based on each person’s context – their role, daily tasks, and work patterns – so learning feels relevant, practical, and easy to act on.

We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code. Just few months back when we introduced the preview, you could describe a site in natural language and the plugin generated the scaffolding, set up Dataverse entities, wired up the Web API, and deployed the website.

The Quality Evaluation Agent (QEA) in Dynamics 365 Customer Service now supports email evaluations, available in Public Preview. The same structured evaluation framework that powers consistent, automated quality assessments across cases and conversations now extends to customer-facing emails. This expansion brings greater trust, transparency, and accountability to another critical communication channel.

We’re excited to announce that Enhanced Data Model (EDM) and Bootstrap 5 are now available for four key Dynamics 365 portal templates in Power Pages: When you provision a new site using any of these templates, it’s automatically built on the Enhanced Data Model with Bootstrap 5. No additional configuration is needed.

Email classification in Dynamics 365 ensures only meaningful customer emails become cases. Reduce noise, improve triage, and boost service productivity.

Companion post to our Build 2026 session: Microsoft Dataverse plugin: unleashing coding agents on the enterprise Coding agents are powerful, but without domain tooling they hallucinate and produce broken solutions. The Dataverse plugin for coding agentssolves this by giving AI agents guardrailed access to tables, columns, relationships, views, security, and solutions.

Every admin we meet wants the same two things: let their teams build and keep the business safe while they do it.

The Dataverse MCP server continues to evolve. The latest Dataverse MCP updates help agents achieve more with business data through a clearer and more capable tool surface. With these changes, agents can more easily inspect metadata, query records, search across structured and unstructured data, and work with Dataverse data through well-defined tool boundaries.

Agentic apps Power Apps MCP server introduces closed-loop learning for enterprise agents Enterprise AI has made building agents faster than ever. But teaching those agents how your organization works still means feeding knowledge in as documents and custom instructions or standing up a data science team to run the training, evaluation, and optimization cycles yourself.

Copilot Cowork is where people delegate multi-step, multi-source work and review it, drawing across records, knowledge, email, and meetings, and increasingly across Sales and Customer Service together. It meets users where they already work in Microsoft 365, and it keeps a person in the loop the whole way: grounded in your records, governed by your permissions, and gated by human approval before anything is written back.

Explore how AI agents transform source-to-pay by supporting faster insights, smarter actions, and more resilient procurement operations.

The Microsoft 2026 Work Trend Index is clear: the constraint on transformation is not people, but the gap between what employees can do and what organizations are built to support.

Workforce engagement management in Dynamics 365 helps service organizations plan, manage, and improve performance across customer service reps and AI agents. With forecasting, scheduling, real-time adherence, AI Agent Estimator, quality evaluation, governance, and coaching capabilities built into the service platform, teams can create a more connected and responsive operating model.

Azure virtual network flow logs connector with Microsoft Sentinel is now generally available, enabling you to seamlessly export and analyze network traffic data within your security operations workflows. With this integration, you can bring rich, network-

Application Gateway for Containers service mesh integration with Istio is now generally available. This capability simplifies secure north-south traffic into workloads running in an Istio service mesh by automating mutual TLS (mTLS) connectivity between A...

As organizations adopt AI agents and MCP-based tooling, integration teams often need to build and maintain custom API layers just to make existing workflows callable by agents. This additional plumbing increases development effort, operational complexity,

We are announcing the early access preview for Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines (VMs), designed for Linux-based agentic AI workloads.

As organizations integrate external AI providers into production applications, platform teams need consistent ways to secure, govern, and observe model interactions across providers. Without centralized controls and telemetry, managing compliance, trouble...

Organizations using workspace-based API management models previously needed a dedicated workspace gateway and Premium tier deployment to take advantage of API Management workspaces increasing both cost and operational complexity. With this update, Azure...

At Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows.

SQL MCP Server is now generally available, giving customers a secure, high-performance way to build agentic solutions with controlled access to production data. Built for SQL and compatible with PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos DB, SQL MCP Server is a dynamic,

Enterprise storage migrations are rarely just about copying data. They are about protecting business continuity, maintaining performance, managing cost, and giving teams confidence when terabytes or petabytes of data sit at the heart of critical applications.

A new Azure portal experience for Summary Rules in Log Analytics is now available. Summary Rules enable aggregation of high-volume log data at a defined cadence and store it in summarized tables for improved query performance, reporting, or enhanced data...

Azure StandardV2 NAT Gateway now supports outbound ICMP Echo Request and Echo Reply traffic, enabling customers to use tools such as ping to quickly validate outbound connectivity and troubleshoot network issues from workloads behind StandardV2 NAT Gatewa...

Poor database performance is never just a database problem. In enterprise teams, it shows up as missed SLAs, delayed releases, frustrated development teams, and rising operational risk. The performance problem compounds further in business impact, often resulting in frustrated customers, retention and conversion risk, and lost revenue.

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving developers and enterprises access to Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work.

Microsoft Foundry helps teams move beyond model access to operate AI at scale—selecting, evaluating, optimizing, and governing models across the full lifecycle.

Build smarter agents with Microsoft Foundry IQ, unifying enterprise and external data into a secure, scalable knowledge layer for faster, higher-quality answers.

Microsoft Build 2026 highlights advancements in app development with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, emphasizing a unified data and AI platform for scalable, agentic applications.

At Microsoft Build 2026, AI moved from experimentation to execution—shifting from isolated tools to connected systems grounded in business data. Organizations that win will embed AI across workflows, scale it effectively, and translate it into measurable outcomes like faster growth, lower costs, and better customer experiences.

OneLake in Microsoft Fabric makes a simple promise: provide a single, unified data foundation for analytics, AI, and BI. ServiceNow Workflow Data Fabric enables customers to access, derive insights and build AI agents using their enterprise data where it lives without needing to manage complex ETL pipelines or duplicate data. ServiceNow Workflow Data Fabric has now introduced a new zero-copy connector for Microsoft OneLake .

Reliable analytics starts with reliable connectivity. We understand that when moving your data, data security is of the utmost concern; we are committed to providing the most secure, cutting-edge data connectivity solutions; enabling you to have the confidence that your data is safe, secure, and reliable. As Microsoft Fabric continues to evolve into an end-to-end analytics platform, we are making focused investments to ensure Microsoft delivers enterprise-ready connectivity across the most...

A new built-in stored procedure for the SQL analytics endpoint in Microsoft Fabric; sp_get_table_health_metric. This feature gives you a T-SQL-native way to check the structural health of your Lakehouse tables, so you can make informed decisions about table maintenance before it impacts your users. The challenge: Blind maintenance or reactive firefighting If you use Lakehouse tables through the SQL analytics endpoint, you may notice queries gradually slowing down.

The June 2026 release of the on-premises data gateway is version 3000.322. This new version (3000.322) continues our focus on improving gateway manageability, operational visibility, and enterprise governance while maintaining secure and reliable connectivity between on-premises data sources and Microsoft Fabric services. Windows broker authentication update The June 2026 release introduces support for Windows Web Account Manager (WAM) authentication, helping organizations improve token...

The BCP API provides a client-side ingestion path for scenarios where data is produced within application code and needs to be written directly to warehouse tables without intermediate staging. It can deliver 5–10× higher ingestion throughput from the client compared to standard T-SQL INSERT statements. In this article, you’ll learn how to leverage the BCP API to accelerate your data ingestion pipelines.

Every organization wants to put AI to work on its data. Copilot, agents, and generative AI promise faster insight , but they raise a hard question for security teams: If AI can reach all our data, what stops it from surfacing the wrong data to the wrong person? The answer is to make your data AI-ready — classified, access-controlled, protected, and observable.

Running large-scale data engineering workloads in Apache Spark often means dealing with expensive shuffle operations. Shuffle is one of the most resource-intensive operations that Spark runs on most, if not all, jobs. When executors holding shuffle data are removed during scale-down, Spark must re-execute entire stages—causing task retries, wasted compute, and unpredictable job runtimes. Efficient Scaledown in Microsoft Fabric Spark helps solve this problem.

There’s a particular rhythm to good development work: you think, you try, you check, you adjust. This month’s Visual Studio update leans into that rhythm. Whether you’re sketching an approach with the Plan agent before touching a single file, reviewing a wave of changes across many files, or fine-tuning the context Copilot has to work...

At Microsoft Build, we are sharing how Microsoft Marketplace brings development, distribution, and monetization together— so apps and agents move beyond prototyping into real-world usage at scale. Microsoft Marketplace connects tens of thousands of cloud and AI solutions built by software development companies to millions of commercial customers. For developers, Marketplace turns code into results.

Frameworks mean nothing, until they change what gets built! In this article we discuss how Git-Ape turns architecture and governance into delivery controls on Azure because, if frameworks do not shape delivery decisions, they are just decoration. Cloud teams do not have a framework problem. They have an execution problem. The industry is full of...

Microsoft Build kicks off today in San Francisco, June 2 and 3. If you cannot make it in person, the sessions are streaming online for free, and I want to walk you through what we are announcing for Visual Studio this week. One idea tie most of it together. Code is an asset, not just...

Themes are personal. Some of us live in dark mode, some swear by high contrast, and some of us have very strong opinions about that one shade of blue from years ago. The new themes in Visual Studio 2026 are built on Fluent, which gives us a much more consistent and accessible foundation, but we...

Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but it wasn't until recently they became popular. Learn what they are, how to use them, and why you might.

How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.

Qubot, our internal Copilot-powered analytics agent, allows any GitHub employee to ask questions about our data in plain language. Here's what we learned as we built it.

Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.

We’re calling for targeted amendments to resolve conflicts with open source licensing and align with international transparency frameworks while preserving regulatory intent.

Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites.

Explore how the GitHub Copilot agentic harness delivers strong results across multiple benchmarks and leading token efficiency, while maintaining flexibility to choose among more than 20 models.

Design the next generation of AI‑powered business applications. Show you can combine apps, agents, automation, and Copilot into intelligent solutions in Microsoft Power Platform, with Exam AB‑410 (beta). The way business solutions are built is changing fast. Today, it’s not enough to create an app or automate a task in isolation; builders need to bring together apps, agents, automation, data, and AI experiences into solutions that can adapt to real business needs.

Deliver always‑on customer service at scale. Prove your ability to design and run modern contact center solutions in Dynamics 365 that combine agents and human expertise, with Exam AB‑250 (beta). Customer expectations now demand fast, continuous service across every channel. Meeting that expectation requires contact center solutions that combine human expertise with intelligent automation, while staying scalable, secure, and well governed.

Announcing new opportunities within the Microsoft Credentials ecosystem, plus new skilling partnerships with Microsoft technology partners. At Microsoft Build 2026, we’re introducing new ways for developers to learn and demonstrate skills in the tools they use every day. Today, we’re announcing: Microsoft Pro Badges , first-of-their-kind credentials that set a new standard for recognizing real-world skills and proficiencies demonstrated through everyday work.

Majorana 2 contains qubits that are 1,000x more reliable than those in our previous quantum processing unit. This rapid progress, enabled by AI, has cut our timeline in half for delivering a scalable quantum computer—now anticipated by 2029.

Marketing is at an inflection point. Across industries, CMOs are no longer asking whether AI will transform marketing but how fast they can move from experimentation to impact, and how to re‑architect work so AI shows up where decisions are actually made.

As AI becomes part of daily life for people and organizations around the world, that shift brings a responsibility to understand—and minimize—its environmental impact. That responsibility is especially real in the communities where datacenters operate.

As data moves across tools and teams, security risks increase. Built for business professionals, the new Exam SC‑730 (beta) validates how you protect data, reduce risk, and respond to incidents. Work today depends on shared data, AI and cloud tools, and constant collaboration. As that expands, so do everyday security risks, phishing attempts, accidental data exposure, and misuse of sensitive information. Security isn’t handled by one team anymore.

Explore how deep‑reasoning agents can sharpen your research by helping you compare sources, test assumptions, and understand data in ways that align with academic standards and research workflows. General-purpose generative AI tools, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, are already helping academic researchers move faster—from brainstorming to literature discovery to early drafting.

When you’re busy at work, the last thing you want to do is spend hours getting a new device set up. In an ideal world, this process takes one, maybe two clicks—and then you’re off to the races. To make this ideal a reality, our team in Microsoft Digital—the company’s IT organization—created an agentic AI...

Cybersecurity risk management at Microsoft is an enterprise-wide discipline spanning governance, engineering, operations, and organizational culture. Through our international operations and diverse portfolio of products, services, and regulatory obligations, we’ve developed a mature, scalable framework designed to facilitate proactive risk identification, structured mitigation, and continuous oversight. This article presents our approach to cybersecurity risk management,

Read about Pro Badges, AI-driven Certifications, and Applied Skills, where learning meets today’s work. And find out how training service providers helped 153,000 learners develop AI skills. This has been a big season for Microsoft Credentials. With the introduction of Microsoft Pro Badges, a growing portfolio of AI-focused Microsoft Certifications, and expanded Microsoft Applied Skills offerings, we’re continuing to evolve how skills are built, validated, and recognized, closer to practical...

At Microsoft, Python has long been one of our most popular programming languages. Our developers use it for building production systems, internal tools, automation workflows, and more. We estimate that at least 67,000 employees use it every day. At that scale, Python dependencies have emerged as a significant source of risk for us—representing the third-largest...