Microsoft Technology Briefing - November 2025

I takt med att cyberhoten blir allt mer sofistikerade och workloads mer distribuerade, har behovet av att säkra identitet och åtkomst aldrig varit viktigare. Under detta webinar får du insikt i hur Entra Suite lägger grunden för en säkerhetsresa, med fokus på moderna strategier för identitets- och åtkomsthantering.

Discover how to deliver secure, AI-powered Windows experiences—without compromising control, cost-efficiency, or flexibility. Join this 60-minute digital Microsoft Tech Brief to explore how organizations can transform their endpoint strategies to meet the demands of modern work...

This new event series brings the many learning opportunities of our flagship Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) to your local community. You'll find a custom-tailored experience for your business environment with local technical leaders and product experts to help you implement the latest data, analytics, and AI innovations that drive your competitive edge. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Vill du ligga steget före i den snabba utvecklingen av AI och lära dig hur både du och din organisation kan dra nytta av den? Missa då inte chansen att ta del av de allra senaste nyheterna inom Copilot och agenter. I denna webinar-serie bjuder vi in dig som arbetar främst med verksamhet, men även med teknik, till en session som fokuserar på hur AI förändrar våra affärsapplikationer.

AI-assistent för alla: Välkommen till vårt Microsoft Hackathon och lås upp praktiska strategier för att maximera din produktivitet med Copilot Chat. Oavsett om du precis har börjat eller vill fördjupa din expertis, kommer detta event att ge dig konkreta insikter, effektiva metoder och praktiska demonstrationer som hjälper dig att arbeta smartare varje dag. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Today, defenders are fighting asymmetric battles against relentless, sophisticated attackers. Existing tools are simply not able to help analysts detect and defend against these bad actors at the levels they’re facing. In just 60 minutes, Microsoft experts will explore how to transform your security operations with a unified, AI-powered platform that helps security teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster and more effectively.

AI is transforming how software is imagined, built, and scaled. AI Builders is a dedicated learning series for developers who want to gain practical skills, explore new tools, and push the boundaries of what AI makes possible.

Join us for an exclusive roundtable discussion and networking lunch focused on Workforce Transformation – Lessons from Copilot Adoption. Personal invites only Reach out to your account executive...

Är din organisation redo att bli en ledande aktör i AI-eran? Välkommen att anmälda dig till AI och molntjänster för offentlig nytta. Detta är en heldag anpassat för offentlig sektor i Sverige. Du kommer få höra både myndigheter, regioner och universitet dela sina berättelser. Location: Microsoft Office, Regeringsgatan 25.

Är din organisation redo att bli en ledande aktör i AI-eran? Välkommen att anmäla dig till AI och molntjänster för offentlig nytta. Detta är en virtuell heldag anpassat för offentlig sektor i Sverige. Du kommer få höra både myndigheter, regioner och universitet dela sina berättelser.

Data architecture is evolving fast — and Microsoft Fabric Analytics is leading that transformation. Built from the ground up with ultra-modern architecture, Fabric Analytics brings together Fabric Spark, Fabric Data Warehousing, Fabric Data Science, and Fabric Data Agents to solve challenges that legacy systems can’t keep up with.

AI Assistant for Everyone: Join our Microsoft Hackaton to unlock practical strategies to maximize your productivity with Copilot Chat. Whether you're just getting started or looking to deepen your expertise, this event will equip you with actionable insights, prompting techniques, and hands-on demos to help you work smarter every day. Location: United Spaces, Östra Hamngatan 16...

Join us for Microsoft Copilot Connections: Use Copilot to Build an Inclusive Society - an exclusive session dedicated to leaders and changemakers passionate about accessibility. Discover how AI is breaking barriers, enabling inclusive experiences, and driving organizational transformation. This event brings together visionaries and decision makers to explore the power of AI in creating accessible environments for everyone.

AI is revolutionizing the way organizations operate — and reshaping the landscape of data security. In just 60 minutes you will get to explore the latest cybersecurity trends, emerging challenges, and how AI is changing the game. Discover how Microsoft Purview empowers you to protect sensitive data across clouds, devices, and AI-powered tools like M365 Copilot by unifying security, governance, and compliance.

AI is transforming how software is imagined, built, and scaled. AI Builders is a dedicated learning series for developers who want to gain practical skills, explore new tools, and push the boundaries of what AI makes possible.

När AI‑agenter snabbt flyttar in i verksamhetsprocesser ökar kraven på tydlig styrning, säkerhet och ansvar. Affärsrisker förändras när agenter tar beslut och hanterar data i stor skala. Regulatoriska krav skärps (tex. EU‑ramverk), och styrning som är “by design” blir en konkurrensfördel snarare än en bromskloss...

In this session, we’ll unwrap the latest highlights and announcements from Microsoft Ignite, showcasing how foundational Azure capabilities come together with developer tools, governance, and observability to accelerate transformation and deliver business value with AI.

This blog shares our journey and insights from building autonomous AI agents for MDR operations and explores how the shift to a GenAI-powered SOC redefines collaboration between humans and AI.

We’re happy to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the ninth consecutive year.

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we are not just announcing new features—we are redefining what’s possible, empowering security teams to shift from reactive responses to proactive strategies.

In the agentic era, security must be ambient and autonomous, like the AI it protects. This is our vision for security, where security becomes the core primitive.

Read about Microsoft and NVIDIA joint research on real-time immunity.

When we launched the Secure Future Initiative, our mission was clear: accelerate innovation, strengthen resilience, and lead the industry toward a safer digital future. Today, we’re sharing our latest progress report that reflects steady progress in every area and engineering pillar, underscoring our commitment to security above all else.

Microsoft has discovered a side-channel attack on language models which allows adversaries to conclude model conversation topics, despite being encrypted.

New IDC research shows why CISOs must move toward AI-powered, integrated platforms like CNAPP, XDR, and SIEM to reduce risk, cut complexity, and strengthen resilience.

Learn how CISOs can use new European Union legislation to strengthen their cybersecurity measures.

This new e-book showcases what generative AI can do for your SOC, from reducing alert fatigue and enabling quicker triage to getting ahead of cyberattacks with proactive threat hunting, and more.

Before we get to this month’s new Teams features, I’m thrilled to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service for the 7th year in a row. We are honored to again be positioned highest for ability to execute and furthest for completeness of vision in the evaluation’s axes.

Welcome to the October 2025 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: Quality and performance enhancements to Copilot Chat New model, calendar search, and Bing web cards in Copilot Chat Previews in mobile and search...

As organizations adapt to evolving regulatory requirements and operational demands we’re focused on the parallel evolution of our Copilot and Agent controls infrastructure. The Copilot Control System (CCS), includes three core areas of Copilot infrastructure: Security and Governance, Management Controls, and Measurement and Reporting. This blog offers customers a practical overview of what’s new in Copilot and agents administration at Ignite 2025 for IT administrators and security professionals.

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we introduced new capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot to help every customer become Frontier—including Work IQ, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint agents in chat, and Agent 365.

PowerPoint is evolving to help you create professional presentations faster and with less effort. Today we’re introducing new and updated AI-powered tools: our new presentation generation experience with advanced steering and image generation, a smarter Copilot that understands your context, powerful image editing including improved background and object removal, and an early preview of Agent Mode for editing your presentations with natural language.

Discover the new and improved Teams SDK, designed to help developers create even more powerful agents for Microsoft Teams.

Transform your creative workflow with AI-generated video – what it means for IT We're excited to announce that OpenAI's Sora 2—their breakthrough video and audio generation model—is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This integration brings professional-grade AI video creation directly into your familiar Microsoft 365 environment, empowering users to generate compelling video content while maintaining the enterprise security and compliance standards you expect from Microsoft.

The new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot are dedicated agents that help users create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations—directly in chat. Built on Microsoft’s deep expertise in productivity, these agents use the latest reasoning models to deliver structured, high-quality outputs. Bridging Chat-First and App-First Experiences with Copilot With dedicated Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, users can now start projects in Copilot...

Today we’re introducing Project Opal in Microsoft 365 Copilot – a new AI-powered capability that executes task-based work inside a secure, observable environment you control. Every organization faces the challenge of repetitive, manual work – tasks that consume valuable time and take away from strategic priorities, creativity, and high-impact work. Consider the time it takes to gather information across multiple sites and tools for a compliance audit, onboarding new employees with equipment...

Earlier this month we announced voice in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app. Today, we’re expanding that offering, introducing voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot app on desktop and the web, as well as in the Microsoft 365 apps, starting with Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint, and a new wake word “Hey Copilot” – an opt-in feature to start a voice chat hands-free on Windows devices. Voice enables Microsoft 365 Copilot users to have natural, back-and-forth conversations with Copilot simply by speaking.

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.

Introducing the Employee Self-Service Agent Today, we're excited to announce that the Employee Self-Service Agent (ESS Agent) in Microsoft 365 Copilot is general available and starting to roll out today, transforming AI-powered employee service delivery for enterprise organizations. This week, during Microsoft Ignite - whether you’ll be onsite in San Francisco or catching the programming online - we hope you join us to learn more about the agent, the value proposition, and a look at the future..

As customer support organizations scale, maintaining consistent service quality becomes a challenge. Manual quality reviews are time-consuming, subjective, and often fail to cover the full spectrum of agent interactions. The Quality Evaluation Agent (QEA) in Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Dynamics 365 Contact Center addresses this gap, bringing automation, consistency, and intelligence to quality assessments for both case and conversation records.

Stay ahead of shifting tariffs with an AI agent that monitors trade updates, automates compliance checks, and helps your supply chain adapt to global changes in real time.

We’re excited to share new capabilities in Copilot Studio, making it easier for makers and administrators to shape agent behavior, enforce organizational standards, and extend functionality with AI.

Discover how the new Power Apps empowers every developer to build intelligent, connected apps faster than ever.

Generative pages in Microsoft Power Apps are now generally available, enabling AI-driven app creation with GPT-5, Fluent UI controls, and solution-aware components for faster, smarter development.

Over 7,000 makers explored innovation with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio—building smarter, faster, and together.

We continue to adapt our sovereignty approach—innovating to meet customer needs and regulatory requirements within our Sovereign Public Cloud and Sovereign Private Cloud. We are announcing a new wave of capabilities, building upon our digital sovereignty controls, to deliver advanced AI and scale, strengthened by our ecosystem of specialized in-country partner experts.

Learn about the new AI features and products In Azure announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025 to help modernize your cloud infrastructure.

This week at Microsoft Ignite 2025, Azure introduces solutions that address your technology strategy questions with innovations designed for this very inflection point.

The VS Code Private Marketplace is a secure, enterprise-ready way to host and manage extensions internally—fully integrated with VS Code. Teams can self-host, deploy easily, and manage updates with flexibility and control.Learn more.

Organizations operating Azure Container Registries (ACR) require least-privilege permissions over which Microsoft Entra identities can publish or consume container images. With ACR repository permissions using attribute-based access control (ABAC), admini...

Model router in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available. Model router is an AI orchestration layer dynamically selects the optimal model for each prompt. It now supports a broader range of models including: GPT-4 family, GPT-5 family, GPT-oss, Deepse...

Azure Application Gateway has introduced general availability support for TLS and TCP protocol termination. This enhancement enables you to load balance and securely process non-HTTP(S) traffic for applications that rely on TCP or TLS protocols. The gatew...

MCP support for AI toolchain operator add-on is now Generally Available. The AI Toolchain Operator add-on now supports KAITO inference workspaces with integrated tool calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP), addressing key challenges around dynamic mo...

With Azure NetApp Files single file restore from backup, you can restore individual files from Azure NetApp Files backup vault without needing to restore an entire volume. By restoring only the necessary files, you can save time and cost needed for restor...

Azure DNS security policy Threat Intelligence feed is now generally available. Protect against known malicious domains with Microsoft’s managed Threat Intelligent feed. Smart Protection Almost all attacks begin with a DNS query. Threat Intelligen...

Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now available in the Retail feed. This release includes updates to Azure Sphere OS only; it does not include an updated SDK. If your devices are connected to the internet, they will receive the updated OS from the cloud.Th...

Announcing that Azure MCP Server now supports Azure Database for MySQL. With this update, you can empower AI agents and applications to interact with your MySQL data using natural language through the open Model Context Protocol (MCP). Instead of writing...

Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia. This purpose-built datacenter is connected to our first Fairwater site in Wisconsin, prior generations of AI supercomputers and the broader Azure global datacenter footprint to create the world’s first planet-scale AI superfactory.

Foundry Tools (rebranded from Azure AI Services) provide a unified suite of prebuilt, production-ready AI capabilities for audio, video, images, documents, and text. Seamlessly integrated into the Microsoft Foundry platform, these tools empower developers...

Today, I’m thrilled to announce the next generation of Microsoft’s databases: SQL Server 2025, Azure Document DB, Azure Horizon DB, and Fabric Databases, each redesigned to meet the demands of AI.

Agents are reshaping software. No longer mere assistants, they are becoming dynamic collaborators layered within our everyday tools.

Microsoft Foundry already offers the widest selection of models of any cloud and with today’s partnership announcement with Anthropic, we’re proud that Azure is now the only cloud providing access to both Claude and GPT frontier models to customers on one platform.

Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric continues to evolve, and the latest updates make working with files simpler and more powerful than ever. Previously, you were required to provide a primary key for mirrored parquet and delimited text files including CSV —now, that’s no longer necessary. Mirroring in Fabric no longer requires primary keys and automatically …

Announcing Anthropic's newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, in Microsoft Foundry. Opus 4.5 is now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot paid plans, and Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Data Engineers working with Microsoft Fabric often need to manage environment-specific configurations, including the modification of Lakehouse names, file paths, or schema names for development, testing, and production environments. In this scenario, you would want to avoid hard coding this information. This is where variable libraries in Fabric can help data engineers manage their environment configuration when working with Fabric User data …

This milestone marks a major step forward in unifying and simplifying data movement experiences across Data Factory. With Copy Job Activity, users can now enjoy the simplicity and speed of Copy Job while leveraging the orchestration power and flexibility of Data Factory pipelines. What is the Copy job Activity Copy Job Activity allows you to …

Co-authored with: Ancy Philip Fabric Data Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoints for mirrored items now support large string and binary data using VARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX) types. Large string or binary values in Data Warehouse In Fabric Data Warehouse, this enhancement allows you to ingest, store, process, and analyze large descriptive text, logs, JSON, or spatial …

JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is a widely adopted standard that enables client applications to connect to and work with data from databases and big data platforms. The Microsoft JDBC Driver for Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering (Preview) – an enterprise-grade connector that brings powerful, secure, and flexible Spark SQL connectivity to your Java applications and BI …

Here is the November 2025 release of the on-premises data gateway (version 3000.294).

At GitHub Universe 2025, the theme was clear: the ability to see, steer, and build across agents will bring the greatest impact.

The October 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) is now available. In this month, we are bringing you improvements to model choices and agentic flows. New Models We now have Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 available in the chat window. This means the latest innovations for driving your agentic workflows is right at your fingertips. Memories For...

Today, we’re excited to share our public roadmap, which outlines the next steps in evolving Visual Studio with AI-powered agentic experiences. With every month, we aim to deliver smarter, faster, and more intuitive tools that enhance your coding experience. Disclaimer: The items outlined here represent ongoing work for the month. They are not commitments or...

.NET 10 delivers a faster, more secure, and more capable platform for modern development. This release enhances performance, productivity, and security across the stack—while C# 14 introduces refinements that make coding more natural and expressive. With...

Faster responses, a lower chance of rate limiting, and 10% off premium requests for paid users – auto picks the best available model for each request based on current capacity and performance. With auto, you don’t need to choose a specific model. Copilot automatically selects the best one for your task. Auto model selection in...

A celebratory announcement of what is new in OpenAPI.NET v2 and v3.

Managing cloud resources often means juggling multiple tools, writing custom scripts, and switching contexts between your IDE and cloud management portals. These extra steps slow development and make it harder to build intelligent, secure applications efficiently. We’re excited to announce that Azure MCP Server (Model Context Protocol) tools are now generally available out-of-the-box in Visual...

Visual Studio 2026 is the next evolution of the world’s most trusted IDE—modernized with AI deeply integrated into everyday workflows. By seamlessly integrating GitHub Copilot and agentic workflows, Visual Studio empowers professional developers to move f...

The open source Git project just released Git 2.52. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

Azure DevOps or GitHub Enterprise ? Today, in the Microsoft ecosystem, two Software Development Lifecycle management platforms coexist: – Azure DevOps is designed from the ground up for enterprise with advanced planning features through Azure Boards, build and release automation with Azure Pipelines, and a unique offering for quality teams with Azure Test Plans… –

Learn more about the agentic security principles that we use to build secure AI products—and how you can apply them to your own agents.

Key Observability Trends Around GitHub Security Modern enterprises are increasingly adopting DevSecOps practices, integrating security into every phase of the development lifecycle. Key observability trends include: Unified Security Dashboards: Organizations seek a single pane of glass to monitor GitHub security events—code scanning, secret leaks, alongside audit logs. Real-Time Visibility: There is a growing demand for...

Why Microsoft 365 Certified Apps and Agents Matter for IT Admins As an IT Admin, you're constantly balancing innovation, security, and user productivity. With the growing ecosystem of apps/agents integrating into Microsoft 365, how do you ensure the ones your organization adopts are secure, compliant, and reliable? That’s where Microsoft 365 Certification comes in. What Is Microsoft 365 Certification?

The number and sophistication of agents that our employees are building here at Microsoft is growing rapidly. To help us and all enterprises respond to this new opportunity, the company just announced Microsoft Agent 365 at Microsoft Ignite. This product serves as the control plane for AI agents—a new evolution of the existing systems that...

Nearly a decade ago, as we began our journey from relying on on-premises physical computing infrastructure to being a cloud-first organization, our engineers came up with a simple but effective technique to see if a relatively inactive server was really needed. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies...

Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. Security isn’t just a feature—it’s a foundation. As threats grow more varied, widespread, and sophisticated, enterprises need to rethink how they protect their environments.

Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. Have you ever struggled to find an important document or photo? Forgotten which app a colleague shared an important data point with you on?

Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. AI is no longer a buzzword—it’s the engine driving a new era of productivity, security, and personalization. And Windows 11 and AI PCs are...

At Microsoft, we are enabling our employees, teams, and organizations to build AI agents to help them complete important tasks—from individual employees in the personal productivity tenant all the way to enterprise-wide agents that are available to everyone. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to...

The rate of change for AI tools and technology continues to accelerate, and new opportunities to reimagine business processes and employees’ day-to-day work are emerging. Agents are the force driving this evolution forward. Agents are specialized AI tools built to handle specific processes or solve business challenges. Within Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’re...

Julie is a typical Microsoft employee, one who commutes to her office, parks in a garage, orders meals from the cafeteria, finds her way to and around different buildings, hosts visitors, and occasionally must deal with a facilities-related service request. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are...

Microsoft is a huge and complex organization, with more than 200,000 full-time employees working in hundreds of locations around the world. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. Previously, when our...

RSNA 2025 highlights Microsoft Dragon Copilot’s next chapter—advancing radiology with unified AI tools that reshape and simplify reporting.

Agentic AI is reshaping healthcare innovation. With new proprietary models and practical tools, Microsoft is helping healthcare teams tackle workforce shortages and data complexity. Discover how MedImageInsight Premium and CXRReportGen Premium are setting new standards in clinical imaging.