The Tech Radar - Issue #07 (August 2025)

By Martin Moyér September 1, 2025
The Tech Radar - Issue #07 (August 2025)

Microsoft announced the launch of GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot, enhancing AI capabilities. They also introduced Azure Storage Discovery for improved data management and were recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms.

AWS released OpenAI's models on Amazon Bedrock and launched Automated Reasoning checks for improved AI accuracy. They also achieved HITRUST certification for 177 services, enhancing security compliance.

Google unveiled a new AI-first Colab experience and was recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Conversational AI Platforms.

OpenAI introduced GPT-5, enhancing coding and creative capabilities.

Salesforce automated 70% of vulnerability management and enhanced AI inference reliability.

SAP was recognized as a visionary in low-code platforms and announced a new partnership to streamline returns management.

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Updates on Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Machine Learning, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Cognitive Services, the Copilot ecosystem, agentic AI, and more

Agent Factory: Top 5 agent observability best practices for reliable AI

This blog post is the third out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which will share best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Seeing is knowing—the power of agent observability As agentic AI becomes more central to enterprise workflows, ensuring reliability, safety, and performance is critical. That’s where agent observability comes in. Agent observability empowers teams to: Detect and resolve issues early in development.

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

Transforming scientific discovery with Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA

From startups to industry-leading enterprises, there is an insatiable desire for organizations to experiment with the idea of how the world could work differently. They explore bold, new ways for society to operate and meet market demand by focusing their efforts on developing innovative products and services. With 78% of companies using AI in at least one business function, 1 we’re now seeing AI adopted by organizations of every size and sector around the world.

Aug 26, 2025 Read more

Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for a second year in a row, and the furthest to the right in Completeness of Vision. We believe this recognition reflects our continued product innovation, seamless developer experience, and AI leadership. Enabling customers to innovate faster with cloud-native apps and AI agents.

Aug 21, 2025 Read more

Agent Factory: Building your first AI agent with the tools to deliver real-world outcomes

This blog post is the second out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which will share best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Tools are defining the next wave of agentic AI In the previous blog, we explored five common design patterns of agentic AI—from tool use and reflection to planning, multi-agent collaboration, and adaptive reasoning.

Aug 20, 2025 Read more

Building the Frontier Firm with Microsoft Azure: The business case for cloud and AI modernization

A new kind of enterprise is emerging—and it’s rewriting the rules of leadership. Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index calls them Frontier Firms : organizations that are not just adopting AI, but are powered by intelligence on tap, human-agent teams, and a new role for everyone; agent boss while rearchitecting their operations around it. These firms are moving beyond experimentation and into scaled transformation—powered by human-agent teams—by having agents as members of their team, reinventing...

Aug 18, 2025 Read more

Agent Factory: The new era of agentic AI—common use cases and design patterns

This blog post is the first out of a six-part blog series called Agent Factory which will share best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. Beyond knowledge: Why enterprises need agentic AI Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) marked a breakthrough for enterprise AI—helping teams surface insights and answer questions at unprecedented speed.

Aug 13, 2025 Read more

GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: The future of AI apps and agents starts here

For business leaders building with AI, the conversation has moved beyond chat. The bar is higher: can your AI generate, reason, and deliver measurable outcomes—safely and at scale? Today, we’re announcing general availability of OpenAI’s new flagship model, GPT-5, in Azure AI Foundry . This is more than a new model release; it is the most powerful LLM ever released across key benchmarks.

Aug 7, 2025 Read more

OpenAI’s open‑source model: gpt‑oss on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry

AI is no longer a layer in the stack—it’s becoming the stack. This new era calls for tools that are open, adaptable, and ready to run wherever your ideas live—from cloud to edge, from first experiment to scaled deployment. At Microsoft, we’re building a full-stack AI app and agent factory that empowers every developer not just to use AI, but to create with it. That’s the vision behind our AI platform spanning cloud to edge.

Aug 5, 2025 Read more

Tackle the future of business operations with the combined power of Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 Business Central

Forward-looking organizations of all sizes that are looking to grow, scale, and accomplish more with the tools that they have today understand that managing financial data alone is not enough. These businesses need tools that centralize, manage, and optimize business processes from end to end. Most teams looking to “graduate” from simplistic accounting software or outdated systems of record turn to cloud-first, and increasingly AI-powered Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to deliver...

Aug 28, 2025 Read more

5 ways to use Copilot and AI tools to spark curiosity this school year

Back-to-school season is more than a calendar milestone—it’s a moment of anticipation, reflection, and opportunity. For educators, administrators, and staff, it’s a time to reconnect with purpose, reimagine what’s possible, and prepare to meet the evolving needs of students. But it’s also a time of complexity. Rising demands, limited time, and rapid technological change are reshaping education in real time.

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

How AI can help save hidden ‘biological hotspots’ the planet needs

How AI can help save hidden ‘biological hotspots’ the planet needs by Vanessa Ho

Aug 26, 2025 Read more

FYAI: Explore the Microsoft AI for Good Lab with Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Microsoft launched the AI for Good Lab in 2018 to harness the transformative power of AI to tackle global challenges and improve lives. The data scientists and researchers in the AI for Good Lab are experts in their fields from around the world, and their innovative work wouldn’t be possible without a global network of hundreds of organizations who provide critical subject matter expertise for the challenges we are trying to solve.

Aug 25, 2025 Read more

‘It’s going to be a big deal’: The NFL and Microsoft expand their partnership and introduce sideline technology using AI innovation

In the lightning-quick world of the National Football League (NFL), there’s very little time to noodle on decisions. Speed is of the essence and every second matters. The sideline is hectic, the crowd raucous. Utilizing technology can be a swing factor in a league where the margins are thin between victory and defeat. “The game’s not stopping. You have 40 seconds between each play or 25 seconds out of a clock stoppage. These decisions happen quickly,” says Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay.

Aug 20, 2025 Read more

AI in Education Report: Insights to support teaching and learning

From small classroom changes to larger system-wide strategies, AI is becoming part of the future of education. The conversation is no longer “if” but “how” as institutions consider what that means for students, educators, and institutions. To better understand this shift, we conducted numerous studies and surveys and collaborated with academic institutions and organizations.

Aug 20, 2025 Read more

Security

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Security updates, identity protection, compliance tools, and threat intelligence, including Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Security Copilot, Entra and more.

BlueHat Asia 2025: Closing soon: Submit your papers by September 5, 2025

The next chapter of the Microsoft Security Response Center’s (MSRC) BlueHat security conference is fast approaching. BlueHat Asia 2025 will take place in Bengaluru, India, on November 5 – 6, 2025 and the Call for Papers is now open. Submissions will be accepted through September 5, 2025. Now in its third decade, BlueHat is more than a conference, it’s a community.

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

postMessaged and Compromised

At Microsoft, securing the ecosystem means more than just fixing bugs—it means proactively hunting for variant classes, identifying systemic weaknesses, and working across teams to protect customers before attackers ever get the chance. This blog highlights one such effort: a deep dive into the risks of misconfigured postMessage handlers across Microsoft services and how MSRC worked with engineering teams to mitigate them.

Aug 25, 2025 Read more

Microsoft Bounty Program year in review: $17 million in rewards

We’re thrilled to share that this year, the Microsoft Bounty Program has distributed $17 million to 344 security researchers from 59 countries, the highest total bounty awarded in the program’s history. In close collaboration with the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), these security researchers have helped identify and resolve more than a thousand potential vulnerabilities, strengthening protections for Microsoft customers around the world.

Aug 5, 2025 Read more

Zero Day Quest: Join the largest hacking event with up to $5 million in total bounty awards

Last year, we announced the largest hacking event in history: Zero Day Quest, with up to $4 million in bounty awards. The response from the global security community was incredible and helped improve security for our customers and partners. This year, Zero Day Quest is back with even more potential bounty awards: up to $5 million total for high-impact research in Cloud and AI security.

Aug 4, 2025 Read more

Storm-0501’s evolving techniques lead to cloud-based ransomware

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501 continuously evolving their campaigns to achieve sharpened focus on cloud-based tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). While the threat actor has been known for targeting hybrid cloud environments, their primary objective has shifted from deploying on-premises endpoint ransomware to using cloud-based ransomware tactics.

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

Microsoft ranked number one in modern endpoint security market share third year in a row

Amidst the backdrop of a surging number of ransomware campaigns worldwide, organizations have increasingly chosen Microsoft Defender’s endpoint security as their preferred solution. It’s engineered to disrupt cyberattacks and not business continuity. As a result, for a third year a row, Microsoft has been ranked number one for modern endpoint security market share in the IDC report, “ Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security Market Shares, 2024 .” Our market share grew from 25.8% in 2023 to 28.

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

Securing and governing the rise of autonomous agents​​

In this blog, you will hear directly from Corporate Vice President and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Identity, Igor Sakhnov, about how to secure and govern autonomous agents. This blog is part of a new ongoing series where our Deputy CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series you will get practical advice, forward-looking commentary on where the industry is going, things you should stop doing, and more.

Aug 26, 2025 Read more

Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique

Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender Experts have observed the ClickFix social engineering technique growing in popularity, with campaigns targeting thousands of enterprise and end-user devices globally every day. Since early 2024, we’ve helped multiple customers across various industries address such campaigns attempting to deliver payloads like the prolific Lumma Stealer malware.

Aug 21, 2025 Read more

Quantum-safe security: Progress towards next-generation cryptography

Quantum computing promises transformative advancements, yet it also poses a very real risk to today’s cryptographic security. In the future scalable quantum computing could break public-key cryptography methods currently in use and undermine digital signatures, resulting in compromised authentication systems and identity verification. Starting your journey to become quantum-safe Read the blog › While scalable quantum computing is not available today, the time to prepare is now.

Aug 20, 2025 Read more

Dissecting PipeMagic: Inside the architecture of a modular backdoor framework

Among the plethora of advanced attacker tools that exemplify how threat actors continuously evolve their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to evade detection and maximize impact, PipeMagic, a highly modular backdoor used by Storm-2460 masquerading as a legitimate open-source ChatGPT Desktop Application , stands out as particularly advanced. Beneath its disguise, PipeMagic is a sophisticated malware framework designed for flexibility and persistence.

Aug 18, 2025 Read more

Connect with the security community at Microsoft Ignite 2025

In today’s AI-powered world, security professionals are facing unprecedented challenges—and opportunities. As generative AI reshapes the digital landscape, the need for robust, intelligent, and adaptive security strategies has never been more urgent. At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we will showcase end-to-end security innovations and share world-class threat and regulatory intelligence to give you the advantage you need to safely adopt AI and face the rapidly changing threat landscape.

Aug 13, 2025 Read more

Dow’s 125-year legacy: Innovating with AI to secure a long future

Founded more than 125 years ago, Dow has demonstrated a commitment to leveraging science to make the world a better place. Today, Dow’s ambition to be the most innovative, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company is supported by a global security team dedicated to keeping employees, customers, and vast volumes of data safe and secure. Dow’s security team, led by Chief Information Security Officer Mario Ferket, proactively covers everything from governance, risk, compliance, identity.

Aug 12, 2025 Read more

Announcing public preview: Phishing triage agent in Microsoft Defender

Intelligent triage for a more agile, autonomous SOC At Microsoft Secure 2025, we introduced a new wave of innovations across Microsoft Defender aimed at redefining what AI can do for security operations. At the center of these announcements was the launch of 11 Security Copilot agents, each purpose-built to reduce manual workload and accelerate response through autonomous, adaptive automation.

Aug 7, 2025 Read more

Sharing practical guidance: Launching Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices

We’re excited to launch Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices : a new library of actionable guidance designed to help organizations implement security measures at scale. This launch marks the next step in our journey to make our SFI learnings practical for our customers, partners, and broader security ecosystem. These patterns and practices draw from a range of proven security architectures and best practices—including, but not limited to, Zero Trust—operationalized to.

Aug 6, 2025 Read more

Microsoft 365

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Updates on Microsoft 365, Copilot & Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, Viva, and other productivity and collaboration tools

Frontline Fridays Session 6: Empowering Frontline Workers with AI

Frontline workers engage directly with customers and patients, manage critical tasks, and keep daily operations running smoothly. Despite their essential role, they often face persistent challenges that can limit more effective and impactful work information overload, manual workflows, and limited access to digital tools. That’s where AI can help. The upcoming Frontline Fridays sessions are geared towards helping you understand how AI can help your frontline workforce.

Aug 1, 2025 Read more

New enhancements in Private Channels in Microsoft Teams unlock their full potential

Private channels have long empowered focused collaboration among a subset of a team’s members. Whether you're managing sensitive projects, driving confidential initiatives, or simply need a space for more targeted discussions, private channels offer the control and privacy your team needs. Now, private channels are evolving to meet the needs of modern teams. In response to customer feedback, we are introducing enhanced flexibility, greater scalability, and streamlined compliance management.

Aug 1, 2025 Read more

Announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot Search General Availability: A new era of search with Copilot

This post was updated on 7/24 to correct the web domain in a graphic. Imagine a world where finding the information you need is as effortless as asking a question. Today, we’re excited to announce general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot Search - search that transforms the way you access knowledge. In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the sheer volume of data can be overwhelming.

Aug 1, 2025 Read more

Available today: GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

We’re excited to announce that GPT‑5—OpenAI’s best AI system to-date—is rolling out today in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio across the world.

Aug 7, 2025 Read more

Understanding foundation model changes in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft regularly enhances the underlying AI models that power Microsoft 365 Copilot. These updates are designed to bring performance improvements, more advanced reasoning, and expanded multimodal capabilities without altering controls, configurations, compliance, security, or core enterprise contractual commitments. Customers do not need to make changes to their environment to account for new model changes.

Aug 7, 2025 Read more

Available today: GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

We’re excited to announce that GPT‑5—OpenAI’s best AI system to-date—is rolling out today in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio across the world. GPT-5 is a significant leap in intelligence and becomes even more powerful when applied to work. Bringing GPT-5 to Copilot on the day of its release is part of our commitment to make OpenAI’s latest models available to customers in Microsoft 365 Copilot within 30 days.

Aug 7, 2025 Read more

Protecting You in Meetings: Sensitive Content Detection in Teams is Now GA 🎉

Have you ever felt that moment of panic when you realize you might be sharing something you shouldn’t in a meeting? With Microsoft Teams’ new sensitive content detection feature , those heart-stopping “oops” moments may soon be a thing of the past. Now generally available as part of Teams Premium, this feature helps detect accidental exposure of sensitive information during screen sharing, helping keep confidential data private, even in cases of unintentional overshare.

Aug 8, 2025 Read more

Connecting an Agent in Copilot Studio to an MCP Server

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standardized framework designed to enable seamless communication between agents and external data or tool sources. By leveraging MCP, agents can dynamically invoke tools, exchange structured data, and access enriched contextual information from connected servers. This approach moves agents beyond static capabilities, empowering them with adaptability and real-time responsiveness based on live data and evolving workflows.

Aug 26, 2025 Read more

Staying Ahead of Compliance: Keep Up with Key Insights from our Quarterly Compliance Update

Navigating Compliance in the AI Era As artificial intelligence (AI) and generative tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot transform how enterprises operate, the stakes for data protection, regulatory alignment, and operational resilience continue to increase. The July 2025 Quarterly Compliance Update – released at the beginning of each quarter – is designed to help CISOs, IT administrators, and compliance leaders stay ahead of emerging risks and regulatory shifts, while maximizing the value of...

Aug 26, 2025 Read more

ICYMI: Partner Blog | How systems integrators are scaling innovation with Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents

Imagine a workplace where AI agents don’t just support your team, they transform how tasks get done, unlocking new levels of creativity, speed, and impact. That future isn’t on the horizon, it’s here. According to Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index Annual Report , nearly half of leaders say their companies are already using agents to fully automate workflows or processes across departments and functions.

Aug 26, 2025 Read more

Navigating Azure Certifications with Copilot and Azure Course Blueprints

Unlock Your Azure Potential Feeling stuck after your Azure certification? You’re not alone. After earning a certification, learners often consider whether to continue with additional associate-level courses or pursue architecture courses. The Azure learning path offers various options, but determining the next step can sometimes be challenging. That’s where Azure Course Blueprints and Copilot come in.

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | August 2025

Welcome to the August edition of What’s New in Microsoft Teams! As Teams continues to evolve, this month’s updates bring a fresh wave of innovation designed to help you work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and stay connected across your organization. Whether you’re catching up on conversations or preparing for your next big meeting, Teams is here to support your productivity with intelligent, user-friendly features.

Aug 28, 2025 Read more

What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | August 2025

Welcome to the August 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: Copilot Control System: Copilot management resources in Microsoft 365 admin center Identify risky AI usage with Microsoft Purview User capabilities: Easier access and...

Aug 29, 2025 Read more

Microsoft Graph CLI retirement

We are announcing the retirement of the Microsoft Graph command-line interface (CLI). The Microsoft Graph CLI has served as a powerful tool for developers and IT professionals to interact with Microsoft Graph through simple terminal commands—enabling automation, scripting, and streamlined access to Microsoft 365 data and services. As we evolve our developer tooling strategy, we’re shifting focus to the more integrated and modern experiences found in PowerShell.

Aug 29, 2025 Read more

Microsoft Graph Toolkit retirement

We are announcing the deprecation of the Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT). The retirement period begins September 1 st , 2025 with full retirement planned for August 28th, 2026. Why we’re retiring this toolkit We introduced the Microsoft Graph Toolkit (MGT) to simplify the developer experience when building web applications that connect to Microsoft Graph. It provided a set of reusable web components and helpers to accelerate development and reduce the complexity of authentication and data binding.

Aug 29, 2025 Read more

Dynamics 365 & Power Platform

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Updates on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, including Project Operations, Supply Chain Management, and other business applications

Diagnostics and telemetry for Dynamics 365 Contact Center voice channel

In today’s connected world, voice communication remains a cornerstone of customer engagement. Whether it’s a support call for customer service or a telehealth session with a doctor, call quality and reliability are critical. That’s where our enriched telemetry and insights come in. Equipped with comprehensive telemetry data, developers and IT teams can monitor, detect, diagnose, and resolve issues with voice call performance, regardless of the calling service provider.

Aug 1, 2025 Read more

Safe, transparent, measurable AI adoption with Agent hub

As AI transforms customer service, sales, and operational workflows, organizations are eager to harness its potential. However, questions about control, security, compliance, and performance linger. That’s why we built Agent hub in Dynamics 365. It’s a one-stop hub that empowers customer service and contact center admins and supervisors to safely adopt AI, monitor its impact, and make informed, responsible decisions.

Aug 4, 2025 Read more

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms

We’re proud to share that Microsoft has again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms (LCAP) . This is the seventh consecutive time we have been named a Leader in this Magic Quadrant™. We’re honored by this recognition in a market where AI innovation, scalability, and governance are crucial.

Aug 7, 2025 Read more

Generative pages get better with GPT-5: Improved quality, enhanced performance

Generative pages aims to redefine how makers build with Microsoft Power Apps—bringing the power of vibe coding to enterprise development in model-driven apps. With just a few prompts, makers can generate rich, responsive pages backed by real React and TypeScript code, all while maintaining enterprise-grade governance and reliability. Aligning to the official GPT-5 announcement yesterday, makers using generative pages will have access to new GPT-5 model , which offers significant improvements in.

Aug 8, 2025 Read more

Dataverse Knowledge in Copilot Studio: Multiline Text Columns and File Columns.

Dataverse Knowledge takes center stage in Microsoft Copilot Studio’s latest update—with support for multi-line text and file columns, plus improved answer consistency. These enhancements make agents built in Copilot Studio more intuitive, insightful, and reliable—helping users uncover business-critical information even when it’s buried in long notes or attachments.

Aug 11, 2025 Read more

Effortless Visibility and Operational Insights for All with Monitor

Ever had a critical app crash at the worst possible moment, or a vital flow suddenly stop sending emails? With Monitor , you don’t have to wait for end-users to complain. Now generally available and enabled by default, no setup required , Monitor gives makers and admins real-time visibility, powerful metrics, and actionable recommendations to keep apps and automations running smoothly.

Aug 11, 2025 Read more

Customer Managed Key (CMK) Updates: Enhancing Security, Flexibility, and Global Reach

We are excited to share the latest developments in Customer Managed Key (CMK) management for Power Platform Environments. As data security evolves, organizations must keep up with best practices and technology to protect sensitive information. Customer Managed Key (CMK) solutions give organizations direct control over encryption keys, strengthening security. We have made recent updates to Customer Managed Key (CMK) functionality: Faster key application with less downtime.

Aug 12, 2025 Read more

Empowering frontier firms with the Case Management Agent

With the latest updates to the Case Management Agent (CMA) in Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Microsoft is helping organizations accelerate their evolution into frontier firms . These organizations lead by empowering AI agents to run entire business processes while humans set direction and monitor progress. The July 2025 preview updates to CMA introduced powerful capabilities that automate the entire case lifecycle, from creation to closure, with the flexibility to provide enterprise-grade case..

Aug 14, 2025 Read more

Build and deploy a single-page application in Power Pages using GitHub Spark and Codespaces

GitHub Spark , when used with GitHub Codespaces, provides a robust cloud-based development experience for building sites that can be efficiently hosted as Power Pages single-page applications . By leveraging the Power Platform CLI, you can streamline your workflow and deploy sites with ease. Why Use GitHub Spark + Codespaces and Host in Power Pages? GitHub Spark is an AI-powered tool that generates single-page applications using natural language prompts, while Codespaces provides a...

Aug 14, 2025 Read more

Take Charge and Stay Ahead with Power Platform Monitor Alerts

Stop chasing problems and start preventing them. Monitor Alerts flips the script for Power Platform admins . Instead of manually checking dashboards, you can define custom health thresholds and get notifications when apps or flows start slipping . No guesswork, no endless refresh marathons—just proactive control. Built into the Power Platform admin center and requiring no setup, Monitor Alerts works across canvas apps, model-driven apps, cloud flows, and desktop flows, giving admins the power...

Aug 18, 2025 Read more

Expanding SMS capabilities in Dynamics 365 Contact Center

We’re excited to announce two enhancements to Dynamics 365 Contact Center, powered by Azure Communication Services (ACS): SMS mobile numbers and SMS short codes. These capabilities significantly expand our global SMS footprint. Moreover, they provide businesses with more flexibility and control over how they engage with customers through real-time, two-way messaging.

Aug 18, 2025 Read more

Automate intent discovery and resolution with Customer Intent Agent

With the latest July 2025 updates to the Customer Intent Agent, Microsoft is accelerating the journey toward fully autonomous contact centers. These enhancements empower organizations to leverage AI agents that not only understand customer intent but also automate the entire resolution process. This increases the availability of human service reps to focus on high-value interactions.

Aug 19, 2025 Read more

Announcing Copilot Studio Agent Academy: Your Mission Starts Now

Welcome to Copilot Studio Agent Academy Whether you’re just starting your journey with AI agents or looking to sharpen your skills in Microsoft Copilot Studio, we’ve got your mission briefing ready and it’s time to suit up! We’re thrilled to introduce Copilot Studio Agent Academy , a new, self-paced curriculum designed to help makers, developers, and AI-curious professionals learn how to build real, useful agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio. No more theoretical fluff.

Aug 20, 2025 Read more

Go Beyond Offline: Introducing Online Mode for Field Service Mobile

For organizations that rely on frontline workers to service and maintain assets in the field, the offline-first experience in Dynamics 365 Field Service Mobile has long been a lifeline. Whether at factory floors, remote oil fields, or underground facilities, your teams can keep working without a network. But what about those moments when connectivity is available? Why not take advantage of it?

Aug 25, 2025 Read more

AI in the inbox: Are your customers ready to embrace AI-powered outreach?

If you’re in sales and concerned that AI-generated outreach email might turn customers off, you’re not alone. Many sellers worry that automated outreach can feel impersonal, potentially eroding trust and damaging relationships. But our recent study paints a different picture—one that’s surprisingly optimistic. Survey responses from 45 businesses across industries–including education, banking, healthcare and tech— a different perspective and offer fresh insights into how AI-generated B2B...

Aug 28, 2025 Read more

Azure

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Updates on Azure cloud services, including Azure compute, networking, storage and hybrid solutions, Arc, Kubernetes, and more

Introducing Azure Storage Discovery: Transform data management with storage insights

We are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Storage Discovery , a fully managed service that provides you enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Blob Storage data estate. It provides a single pane of glass to understand and analyze how your data estate has evolved over time, optimize costs, enhance security, and drive operational efficiency.

Aug 6, 2025 Read more

Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

We’re proud to announce that Microsoft has once again been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management , for the third year in a row. We believe this recognition reflects the breadth, innovation, and real-world customer impact of our container portfolio. From Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Apps (ACA) to our hybrid and multi cloud solutions with Azure Arc, Microsoft offers a comprehensive container management solution that meets...

Aug 12, 2025 Read more

From Redmond to San Diego: VS Live! Highlights, Session Examples, and What’s Next

There’s something special about hosting developers at Microsoft HQ — and this year’s Visual Studio Live! Redmond reminded me why I love these events. The energy in every room was electric. From the moment the first session kicked off, developers leaned in, asked smart, challenging questions, and took every opportunity to connect with the Product Managers and engineers from Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub Copilot. Between sessions, the hallways were buzzing.

Aug 14, 2025 Read more

Building your first MCP server: How to extend AI tools with custom capabilities

Have you ever worked with AI tools and wished they had access to some additional piece of context? Or wanted them to perform actions on your behalf? Think of those scenarios where you’re working with GitHub Copilot and you need it to check a GitHub Issue, run a Playwright test, or interact with an API. By default, these AI tools lack access to those external systems. But that’s where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) comes in. It’s a standardized way to extend AI tools with custom capabilities.

Aug 22, 2025 Read more

Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems

At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud. Since launching the Secure Future Initiative (SFI)—a company-wide commitment to security, we continue to prioritize delivering products and solutions that are secure by design , secure by default , and secure in operation .

Aug 25, 2025 Read more

Safeguarding VS Code against prompt injections

The Copilot Chat extension for VS Code has been evolving rapidly over the past few months, adding a wide range of new features. Its new agent mode lets you use multiple large language models (LLMs), built-in tools, and MCP servers to write code, make commit requests, and integrate with external systems. It’s highly customizable, allowing users to choose which tools and MCP servers to use to speed up development.

Aug 25, 2025 Read more

GitHub Copilot for Azure (Preview) Launches in Visual Studio 2022 with Azure MCP Support

The GitHub Copilot for Azure extension is now in Public Preview for Visual Studio 2022 (17.14+). It brings a curated set of Azure developer tools—exposed through the Azure MCP server—directly into GitHub Copilot Agent Mode in Visual Studio. The extension automatically installs and manages the Azure MCP server, so you can query resources, diagnose issues, deploy with azd, and run Azure CLI commands—all from the Copilot Chat.

Aug 25, 2025 Read more

Gain Deeper Insights into Spark Jobs with JobInsight in Microsoft Fabric

JobInsight is a powerful Java-based diagnostic library designed to help developers and data engineers analyze completed Spark applications in Microsoft Fabric. With JobInsight, you can programmatically access Spark execution metrics and logs—all from within a Fabric Notebook. Whether you’re investigating performance bottlenecks, debugging task execution, or conducting post-run analysis across jobs, stages, or executors, JobInsight …

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

Meet Your Healthcare Regulation and Compliance Requirements with Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policies

In healthcare, data security is not just a technical priority—it’s an ethical and legal imperative. From electronic health records (EHRs) to population health analytics and research data, healthcare organizations working with platforms like Microsoft Fabric must protect sensitive health information while navigating a complex web of regulatory requirements, most notably HIPAA and regional health privacy …

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

How to use GitHub Copilot on github.com: A power user’s guide

You’ve been using GitHub Copilot in your IDE for autocomplete and code suggestions. But here’s what I discovered recently: there’s a whole other side of Copilot that lives on github.com, and it’s designed for different problems entirely. While your IDE handles the day-to-day coding, GitHub Copilot on github.com helps you tackle project management, team coordination, and rapid prototyping.

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (September)

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 guarantees for delivery within the current month. With that said, here is what we are working on!

Aug 27, 2025 Read more

Fabric Influencers Spotlight August 2025

Welcome to the August 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 …

Aug 28, 2025 Read more

How we accelerated Secret Protection engineering with Copilot

Accidentally committing secrets to source code is a mistake every developer dreads — and one that’s surprisingly easy to make. GitHub Secret Protection was built for moments like these, helping teams catch exposed credentials before they cause harm. Secret Protection works by creating alerts for sensitive credentials found in code, and it offers several features to help mitigate leaks even further.

Aug 28, 2025 Read more

How GitHub Models can help open source maintainers focus on what matters

Open source runs on passion and persistence. Maintainers are the volunteers who show up to triage issues, review contributions, manage duplicates, and do the quiet work that keeps projects going. Most don’t plan on becoming community managers. But they built something useful, shared it, and stayed when people started depending on it. That’s how creators become stewards. But as your project grows, your time to build shrinks.

Aug 28, 2025 Read more

Under the hood: Exploring the AI models powering GitHub Copilot

Since its initial launch in 2021, GitHub Copilot has evolved a lot — and so have the AI models that power it. When we first announced GitHub Copilot as a technical preview, OpenAI hadn’t yet launched ChatGPT. Today, AI dominates headlines and workflows alike. Amid this rapid change, our focus has remained the same: help developers stay in flow and get more done. Amidst all of that, we have been focused on continually improving GitHub Copilot with developers in mind.

Aug 29, 2025 Read more

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How we’re recapping our meetings with AI and Microsoft Teams Premium at Microsoft

Microsoft Digital stories Traditionally, missing a meeting—or even just a part of one—could mean being left behind while the rest of the team pressed forward. Referring to prior meetings was tedious, requiring employees to sift through hours of recorded dialogue to find specific reference points. Microsoft Teams has changed that with its AI-powered Intelligent Recap feature in Microsoft Teams Premium.

Aug 28, 2025 Read more

Closing the deal with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales at Microsoft

Microsoft Digital stories We didn’t just hope Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales would make a difference for our sales team here at Microsoft—we measured it. The results were outstanding. In the first few months after adopting Copilot for Sales, our sellers experienced the following: Per-seller revenue went up 9.4 percent Opportunity per seller grew by 5 percent Individual win rates jumped by 20 percent These aren’t projections or pilot estimates.

Aug 28, 2025 Read more

Using AI to redefine how we work in Microsoft Outlook, the app Microsoft employees live in at work

Microsoft Digital stories In just a few short years, work has changed in fundamental ways. The rapid rise of AI has brought an entirely new mindset to the workplace. To adapt to that shifting mindset, we’re reimagining how the tools employees use meet them in the moments that matter. That’s especially true for things they use every day, like Microsoft Outlook, the app that has long been the tool our employees “live in” at work.

Aug 28, 2025 Read more

Confidential by design: How we’re securing OneNote for the age of AI at Microsoft

Here at Microsoft and at workplaces around the world, OneNote is used for everything from record keeping and note-taking to collaborating across teams. And with Microsoft 365 Copilot making work easier and more efficient across all Microsoft 365 applications, OneNote should be no exception. However, before we in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, could fully integrate Copilot into OneNote, we first needed to make it more secure.

Aug 21, 2025 Read more

Inside Microsoft: Being Customer Zero in an AI-powered world

Microsoft Digital stories The rate of change in IT is accelerating at a blistering pace. AI-powered capabilities like Microsoft 365 Copilot have enabled a new era of employee productivity. Today, agentic capabilities are supercharging IT like never before. As IT leaders, we are living in extraordinary times. But change can be destabilizing, even during normal times for the most confident and sure-footed IT teams.

Aug 14, 2025 Read more

Supercharge your business transformation with Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Digital readiness guide AI transformation is one of the most profound business changes in decades. Making the most of AI tools will require careful planning, thoughtful communication, comprehensive employee enablement, and diligent tracking. Fortunately, Microsoft Viva fills all of these roles and more. “Viva’s all about helping people thrive amidst transformation.

Aug 14, 2025 Read more

Unleashing API-powered agents at Microsoft: Our internal learnings and a step-by-step guide

Microsoft Digital technical stories Agentic AI is the frontier of the AI landscape. These tools show enormous promise, but harnessing their power isn’t always as straightforward as prompting a model or accessing data from Microsoft 365 apps. To reach their full potential in the enterprise, agents sometimes need access to data beyond Microsoft Graph. But giving them access to that data relies on an extra layer of extensibility.

Aug 7, 2025 Read more

Supercharging our SharePoint sites at Microsoft with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft Digital stories Microsoft SharePoint is one of the most ubiquitous and highly trusted content storage and sharing solutions in modern business. Around the world, organizations add over 2 billion pieces of content to SharePoint and create more than 2 million sites every day. It’s the place where people connect with each other and share their content, doing everything from creating files to hosting videos to managing processes to publishing organizational intranets.

Aug 7, 2025 Read more

Certifications refresh: AI-focused and fundamentals updates

As the age of AI reshapes the business landscape, organizations are embedding AI into every layer of their operations. Professionals, students, entrepreneurs, and others are learning to not only implement business solutions but also to design and integrate AI-powered apps and experiences, orchestrate autonomous agents, and govern ethical AI systems. To support these skill-building needs for learners in all career stages, Microsoft Learn is refreshing our Certification and training offerings...

Aug 29, 2025 Read more

DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation

We released DocumentDB —our fully permissive, PostgreSQL backed, open-source document database project earlier this year. In just a few short months, the project has gained escalating engagement from the developer community—many of whom expressed enthusiasm to both use and contribute to the solution. The project grew to nearly 2,000 GitHub stars, with issues, discussions, and feature requests flooding in—initially from Postgres enthusiasts.

Aug 25, 2025 Read more

Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale

Microsoft’s engagement with the open source community has transformed the company from a one-time skeptic to now being one of the world’s leading open source contributors. In fact, over the past three years, Microsoft Azure has been the largest public cloud contributor (and the second largest overall contributor) to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). So, how did we get here?

Aug 22, 2025 Read more

Introducing Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents

The Azure Core Upstream team is happy to introduce Wassette: a security-oriented runtime that runs WebAssembly Components via Model Context Protocol (MCP). Wassette allows agents to autonomously fetch WebAssembly (Wasm) Components from Open Container Initiative (OCI) registries and execute them as needed. It’s built on the Wasmtime runtime , offering secure sandboxing on par with modern browser engines.

Aug 6, 2025 Read more

Unlocking the potential of manufacturing with cloud modernization

Manufacturers understand the pressure to modernize to harness the power of AI transformation with cloud-first approaches. Forrester quotes manufacturing and materials leaders saying, “our competitors are getting ahead of us, and ownership is just getting aligned with we need as a company,” and “ the need to improve digitization of the business and enhance employee and customer satisfaction.

Aug 19, 2025 Read more

Embracing AI-powered operations: A maturity path for manufacturers

Manufacturers today are feeling pressure from multiple angles. Customers expect custom products delivered faster than ever, global supply chains remain unpredictable, and every decision counts with tariff questions looming. In this environment, making smarter decisions with real-time data and AI is essential to stay ahead. Leading this shift are what Microsoft calls “Frontier Firms.” These companies change how they work to get the most out of AI.

Aug 7, 2025 Read more
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