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July Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:23:57 Z

We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The most recent release, Azure DevOps Server, is available on the download page. The following versions have been patched. For more details on […] The post July Patches for Azure DevOps Server appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

Choosing the Right Starting Point for Enterprise AI Agents with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:00:00 Z

Choosing the Right Starting Point for Enterprise AI Agents with Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry Enterprise AI conversations often begin with a familiar question: Should this agent be built wit...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Protect sensitive generative AI telemetry in Application Insights and Microsoft Foundry

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:09:43 Z

Azure Monitor Application Insights now stores generative AI content in a dedicated GenAIContent table (AppGenAIContent in Log Analytics), making it possible to apply newly available access controls to sensitive AI telemetry. Because Application Insights p
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Monitor, Categories: Security, Management

IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:59:26 Z

IPv6 support for Azure VPN Gateway enables customers to run IPv6 inner traffic through VPN tunnels in a dual‑stack configuration. IPv6 is supported on all production SKU gateways that use standard public IPs.IPv6 inner traffic can be configured for both n
Update Type: GA, Services: VPN Gateway, Categories: Security

AI agents, meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:05:15 Z

If you use the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator, you probably know the local development loop: start the emulator, connect to it, create some resources, load test data, run queries, and inspect the results. Each step is straightforward, but together they add setup work before you can test the application you are actually building. How […] The post AI agents, meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories:

Recently released: Updates to SQL projects in SSMS, VS Code, and SqlPackage

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:45:00 Z

Your database should be part of the same development process as the rest of your application, with source control and automation for validation and deployment. Recent releases of SQL Server Managemen...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: SQL Database, Categories:

Microsoft Defender CSPM Assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server - GA

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:18:00 Z

As security and regulatory requirements evolve, proactively monitoring and assessing database security posture becomes just as important as detecting active threats. Maintaining a secure and complian...
Update Type: GA, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Azure Functions support for Python 3.14

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:47:00 Z

You can now develop functions using Python 3.14 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions plans on Linux. Upgrade your apps to Python 3.14 to take advantage of enhanced security, a longer support window, and continued compatibility with the Azure Functio
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Functions, Categories: Services, Open Source

Azure Functions Support for PowerShell 7.6

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:44:00 Z

Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.6 is now available in preview. You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.6 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions plans. Learn more: What's new in PowerShell 7.6 Azure Functions PowerShell versions and their
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Functions, Categories: Security, Services

Microsoft Foundry Now Has an AI Gateway Control Plane - What Changes for App Service

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:04:00 Z

Microsoft Foundry can now create or associate an APIM-based AI Gateway. Here is what changes for App Service agents, what remains in APIM, and the v2-tier requirement that affects existing gateways.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Microsoft Foundry, App Service, Categories:

Hypervelocity Engineering: Accelerating Enterprise AI with Azure AI Landing Zones

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:57:00 Z

Artificial Intelligence is evolving at unprecedented speed. The challenge for enterprises is no longer building AI solutions—it is engineering AI platforms that can adapt, scale, and govern innovatio...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Microsoft Defender security assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:55:28 Z

Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server are now generally available. You can use assessments to continuously evaluate the security posture of your Azure PostgreSQL flexible
Update Type: GA, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Defender for Cloud, Categories: Security

Encryption in Transit for Azure Files NFS Shares in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:54:09 Z

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now generally supports Encryption in Transit (EiT) for Azure Files NFS v4.1 volumes through the Azure File CSI driver. With EiT enabled, data transferred between AKS workloads and Azure Files NFS shares is encrypted using TL
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Storage, Categories: Security, Services

Azure Cobalt: Workload-Aware Power Management for More Efficient Datacenters

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:16:00 Z

As cloud services and AI workloads continue to grow, power has become a key constraint in expanding compute capacity. Using available power more efficiently enables Azure to deploy more servers in ea...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories: Management

Azure IoT Edge 1.6 LTS is now available

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:04:00 Z

IoT Edge 1.6 is built on .NET 10, which is an LTS release supported through November 14, 2028. IoT Edge 1.6 is supported for that same window. So if you're planning for the long term, 1.6 is the vers...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: IoT Edge, Categories:

Agents can learn with Memory in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Recurring Failure We are entrusting AI agents with an increasing range of tasks, from preparing briefs to scheduling meetings, and from filing tax returns to building and debugging production syste...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:00:10 Z

Learn how to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions using Durable Functions. This post explains why synchronous tool calls break down for long-running work, introduces the MCP Tasks extension, and walks through a sample pattern that works with existing request/response clients today. The post How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Categories:

MCP Enterprise Authorization Is Here - What Entra and App Service Can Do Today

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:31:00 Z

Learn what MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization changes, how Entra ID and App Service map to the model today, and explore a working Python reference with a local ID-JAG lab.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Microsoft Entra ID, Categories:

Choose the right speech and voice model

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:00:00 Z

Choose the right speech and voice model in Microsoft Foundry The practical approach to selecting the right model is simple: do not ask which speech model is best. Ask what the speech system must gu...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

How Microsoft 365 built a platform engineering layer on AKS to ship faster at global scale

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:00:00 Z

This Customer Zero story explains how Microsoft 365 built COSMIC, a platform engineering layer on top of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), to standardize how cloud services are deployed and operated at...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Categories:

Meet the IQ's: How Microsoft is Creating Context-Aware AI

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:04:00 Z

Authors: Lavanya Sreedhar LavanyaSreedhar, Tom Dinh TomDinh, Oviya Soundararajan oviyasound, and Rafia Aqil Rafia_Aqil The AI era demands more than powerful language models. It demands...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Answers You Can Trust: Grounding Enterprise Agents with Foundry IQ

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:00:00 Z

Enterprise AI has a trust problem, and it is not about fluency. A model will answer almost any question with confidence, whether or not it actually knows. The moment a legal or support team catches i...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

From Policy to Proof: Governing AI to Scale Human Ambition and Machine Intelligence

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:51:00 Z

Enterprises are moving from AI experiments to AI in production. Copilots are in the flow of daily work, custom applications are built on foundation models, and autonomous agents are beginning to take...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Announcing: GitHub Copilot and Claude Code connectors in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:58:30 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework now ships generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, so developers can build .NET and Python agents that delegate coding tasks to either system without writing custom adapter code. The connectors plug into
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration patterns including Magentic in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:57:24 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for multi-agent orchestration patterns, including the dynamic Magentic pattern that delivered 38 percent on GAIA and competitive results on AssistantBench and WebArena in published benchmarks. The GA
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:55:40 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration SDK with the Microsoft Foundry Agent Framework in C# and Python

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:53:28 Z

Microsoft Foundry is now introducing Agent Framework, a unified multi-agent orchestration SDK for C# and Python. This release consolidates patterns previously spread across AutoGen and Semantic Kernel, giving developers a consistent set of abstractions fo
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: SDK and Tools

Announcing: Tracing for Microsoft Agent Framework (Python and .NET)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:51:45 Z

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers tracing for the Microsoft Agent Framework in both Python and .NET, helping developers observe how agents reason, call tools, and interact with models during execution. This release is part of the broader hos
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Monitor, Categories:

Announcing: CodeAct pattern and Hyperlight containers in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:50:14 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework adds the CodeAct pattern in public preview, which lets agents collapse a multi-step plan into a single executable code block rather than chaining one tool call at a time. In representative workloads, CodeAct cut end-to-end latenc
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing: Episodic procedural memory in Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:48:54 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework adds episodic procedural memory in public preview, a built-in store that lets agents remember successful task patterns and replay them on similar future requests. The framework records action sequences, tool selections, and inter
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing: Agent Channel for Microsoft Agent Framework multi-agent communication

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:47:41 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework introduces Agent Channel in public preview, a built-in primitive that lets agents send structured messages to each other without bespoke routing code. Channels carry typed messages, support request and response or fire-and-forget
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Implementing Multi-Agent Orchestration in Microsoft Copilot Studio

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:35:00 Z

As organizations move beyond simple Q&A copilots, a common challenge quickly emerges: single agents struggle to handle multi-step, cross-domain scenarios. In our work with customers using Microsoft C...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Azure SQL updates for mid-July 2026

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:50:44 Z

In mid-July 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Shortcut Configuration lets you customize keyboard shortcuts for Quick Queries, the Results Grid, and the Query Editor directly within Visual Studio Code—wit
Update Type: Preview, Services: SQL Database, Categories: Features

Expanding Azure Arc SQL Migration with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:35:31 Z

The Azure Arc migration solution now supports SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines as a migration target. Arc-enabled SQL Server instances can now be migrated to both Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server on Azure infrastructure using the same unified
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, SQL Database, Azure Arc, Categories: Features

Give your AI agent two memories with Azure App Service

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:23:00 Z

A complete App Service sample that combines Redis conversation history with Cosmos DB vector memory through Microsoft Agent Framework providers and passwordless Azure access.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Cosmos DB, Categories:

Announcing the ASIM Parser Creation Agentic Experience

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Creating high-quality ASIM parsers has always required deep knowledge about source data and ASIM schemas, careful KQL design, and repeated validation cycles. That process is meaningful to understand ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:30:11 Z

Starting July 15, 2026, advanced platform metrics are available in Public Preview. This update provides enhanced visibility into platform performance, resource health, and operational trends across supported Azure services. With advanced platform metrics,
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Categories: Management

Announcing: DevUI Agent Inspector for Microsoft Agent Framework

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:15:25 Z

Microsoft Agent Framework adds DevUI Agent Inspector in public preview, a local debugging surface that shows agent runs as a navigable tree of model calls, tool invocations, and intermediate state. Developers can pause, replay, and edit prompts mid-run, s
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Public Preview: Advanced platform metrics in Azure Monitor

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:09:00 Z

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of advanced platform metrics for Azure Monitor, delivering more granular telemetry to help customers monitor and optimize their workloads more effectivel...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Load testing Copilot Studio agents with Locust and Azure Load Testing

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:47:00 Z

A conversational agent doesn't answer like an API. You send one message. The server returns 200 OK. And then nothing happens. The real answer is still coming, streaming back over a WebSocket as one r...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Testing, Categories:

Give your AI agent two memories with Azure App Service

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 Z

Agents feel continuous only when they can operate across two very different time horizons. They need the recent turns that make the current conversation coherent, and they need a smaller set of durable facts that can follow an authenticated user into a new conversation.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

Orchestrate Azure Container Apps Jobs with Apache Airflow

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:41:00 Z

Azure Container Apps (ACA) Jobs are a great way to run work that starts, does something, and finishes: nightly batch, data processing, ETL, ML scoring, report generation. They scale to zero, bill per...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Azure Front Door edge actions

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:03:32 Z

Announcing the public preview of Azure Front Door edge actions (serverless compute at the edge).With edge actions, customers can execute lightweight JavaScript functions during Azure Front Door request processing to make real-time decisions closer to user
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, App Service, Azure Front Door, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Introducing Azure Front Door edge actions - Bringing secure, programmable logic to the edge

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:55:00 Z

Modern web applications are expected to feel instant, secure, and personalized, no matter where users connect from or what device they use. Delivering that experience requires more than moving static...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Front Door, Categories:

Generally Available: SQL Migration to SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines in Azure Architecture

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:01:00 Z

One Migration Experience, More Flexibility Modernizing SQL Server estates is rarely a single-step journey. Organizations often operate across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments while balan...
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, SQL Database, Azure Arc, Categories:

How a Large Enterprise Migrated 47 TB and 7,000+ Collections to Azure DocumentDB in Under 48 Hours

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:06:50 Z

Large database migrations are where good planning either pays off or falls apart. In a MongoDB-compatible estate with thousands of collections, the hard part is not only moving data. It is deciding what to move, what to defer, how to sequence the work, and how to keep the system stable while ingestion is running at […] The post How a Large Enterprise Migrated 47 TB and 7,000+ Collections to Azure DocumentDB in Under 48 Hours appeared first on Azure DocumentDB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: DocumentDB, Categories:

From AI Adoption to AI Governance - Using APIM as the Gateway for Azure AI Foundry

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:45:00 Z

Enterprises move through three phases of AI adoption: evaluating models, building apps and agents, and operationalizing them in production. The first two are easier to accelerate. The third is where ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Azure Databricks SQL Serverless in UK West

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:04:04 Z

Starting July 13th, 2026, customers can use Azure Databricks SQL Serverless in the UK West region to simplify analytics workloads while benefiting from instant compute, automated scaling, and reduced infrastructure management. Eligible UK West workspaces
Update Type: GA, Services: Databricks, Categories: Features

Building toward an Agentic SOC: A Portable, Autonomous Malware Investigation Agent

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Modern Security Operations Centers are not short on tools. They are short on continuity. Analysts jump from alert consoles to data exploration, from enrichment to investigation, and from evidence gat...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories: Security

The AI Agent Lifecycle: A Simple Guide

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:52:00 Z

The Bigger Picture Building an AI agent is fundamentally different from building traditional software. With a website or application, teams typically design, develop, test, and release. Once depl...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Stream Model Weights to NVIDIA GPU (vLLM) from Azure Blob Storage using the RunAI Model Streamer

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 Z

Stream LLM Model Weights to NVIDIA GPU running vLLM directly from Azure Blob Storage on AKS using the RunAI Model Streamer to cut cold starts and speed up autoscaling.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Storage, Categories:

Beyond the Canvas: The Azure Architecture Diagram Builder Becomes Agent-Ready

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:40:00 Z

AZURE ARCHITECTURE BLOG · 8 MIN READ Author: Arturo Quiroga, Senior Partner Solutions Architect — Microsoft Two months ago I published From Prompt to Production: Building Azure Architecture Di...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Arc, Categories:

Support for Python-2.7; 3.8 and PowerShell- 7.1; 7.2 will be retired on September 30, 2026

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:33:34 Z

Starting October 1, 2026, the specified runtime versions Python 2.7, Python 3.8, and PowerShell 7.1 & 7.2. will no longer be supported by Automation. Runbooks using these versions may continue to run but will not receive security updates, bug fixes, or o
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: , Categories: Compliance, Security, Management, Retirements

Azure Front Door: Resiliency Series - Part 3: Tenant isolation

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:08:00 Z

Abhishek Tiwari, Vice President of Engineering, Azure Networking Amit Srivastava, Partner Director of PM, Azure Networking Varun Chawla, Partner Director of Engineering, Azure Networking Azur...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Front Door, Categories:

Shrinking Azure Pipeline task extensions using esbuild

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:45:56 Z

TL;DR We bundled an internal Azure Pipelines task extension into a single bundled JavaScript file using esbuild. The task package dropped from tens of megabytes and thousands of files to three files per task ( script.js , task.json , and icon.png ). The change took about 20 lines of build tooling. We measured the payoff across our production pipelines: […] The post Shrinking Azure Pipeline task extensions using esbuild appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

Manage Azure Chaos Studio from the Azure CLI

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:57:33 Z

You can now create and run Azure Chaos Studio resilience Scenarios directly from the Azure CLI with the new az chaos extension — no more hand-assembling REST calls and JSON files. Get started in one step: az chaos setup stands up a workspace, wires up per
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Chaos Studio, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Open AI GPT-5.6 on Azure Databricks

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:21:12 Z

Open AI GPT-5.6 is now available on Azure Databricks. You can use GPT 5.6 (purchased on Microsoft Foundry) via Model Serving Endpoint in Azure Databricks. Through integrations across Foundry and Azure Databricks, you can securely build, deploy, and manage
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features

Microsoft Foundry Model Deployment Pricing Update

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:22:00 Z

Today, Microsoft Foundry is announcing updated pricing for model deployments in the EU Data Zone and in Regional deployments outside the US, effective September 1, 2026, alongside a new APAC Data Zon...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Optimize Oracle workloads on Azure with Azure NetApp Files

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:22:00 Z

This article shows how Azure NetApp Files optimizes Oracle on Azure with high-performance storage, simplified deployment, and integrated data protection. Key capabilities – including application volu...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Storage, Azure NetApp Files, Categories:

Plan for Upcoming Changes to Extended Security Updates on Azure Local

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:08:00 Z

Beginning April 1 2026, Microsoft introduced a consistent pricing model for Extended Security Updates (ESU) for SQL Server and Windows products, including SQL Server 2016, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Arc, Categories: Security

Enhanced host pool management for Azure Virtual Desktop is now generally available

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Save time, reduce costs, and improve performance with Azure Virtual Desktop host pool management experiences now available.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Desktop, Categories:

Frontier Tuning - A shift from classic fine-tuning

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Your AI agents are burning through tokens and budget because they're relearning your business context on every single task. Frontier Tuning changes that equation. Instead of injecting thousands of co...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Monitoring & Observability in Microsoft FoundryPart 2: Configuration and Operations

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:00:00 Z

Part 1 of this series made the case that AI observability is not just another dashboard problem. Once an agent is in production, the question is no longer can it respond; the question is whether it c...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Frontier models and production agents: Advancing Microsoft Foundry for the agentic era

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:00 Z

Introducing OpenAI’s latest frontier model series, the Asia Pacific Data Zone, and product agent capabilities, all generally available in Microsoft Foundry.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Announcing Flat File Schema Generation support in Azure Logic Apps Standard

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:01:00 Z

We’re excited to announce the preview of Flat File Schema Generation for Azure Logic Apps Standard. This new built-in action helps integration teams move faster by generating BizTalk compatible flat-...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

Foundry IQ is now in Copilot Studio: Bring your enterprise data to every agent conversation

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:24:00 Z

Your AI agents are only as smart as the data they can access Enterprise teams building Copilot agents face a familiar challenge: connecting agents to organizational knowledge without compromising s...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

A Paradigm Shift in Cloud Operations with Azure SRE Agent

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:21:00 Z

Cloud operations are entering a new era. As systems grow in scale and complexity, the traditional model of reactive incident response, where engineers manually piece together signals across dozens of...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: SRE Agent, Categories:

Before You Ship Your Agent: A Five-Step Path to Evaluations You Can Trust

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:41:00 Z

Authors: Caroline Yeh, Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Morteza Ziyadi If you've shipped an agent to production, or you're close, you've already made a quiet bet: that the evals you ran during development reflec...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Introducing ROI for agents in Foundry

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:00:00 Z

Authors: Han Che, Luffy Chen Across Foundry Agent Service and the broader ecosystem of agent frameworks and runtimes, it is becoming easier to build, deploy, evaluate, and optimize production agent...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Building on Vercel’s eve + Azure Cosmos DB: An Agent That Remembers

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:56:27 Z

Most “AI agent” demos forget everything the moment the process exits. That’s fine for a toy project, but useless for anything real. An agent that helps you write, triage, or support needs two things a language model alone can’t give it: durable state and the ability to recall the right context by meaning. This post […] The post Building on Vercel’s eve + Azure Cosmos DB: An Agent That Remembers appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories:

Hybrid Logic Apps Deployment on Red Hat OpenShift

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:52:00 Z

What makes OpenShift different? If you've done this on K3s or AKS, most of the flow is identical as mentioned in Set up your own infrastructure for Standard logic app workflows - Azure Log...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Kubernetes Service, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Categories:

Golden Paths Are a Product. Treat Them Like One.

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:26:00 Z

Audience: Cloud architects, platform engineers, engineering leaders In my earlier Cloud Native Platforms articles, I focused on how teams build, run, and evolve modern engineering foundations. T...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Exceptions in WAF for Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:42:50 Z

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect your web applications from common threats and attacks. In some cases, WAF may block requests that are safe and expected for your application. Existing exclusions help reduce false positives by omitting sp
Update Type: Preview, Services: App Service, Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Azure Chaos Studio Workspaces and Scenarios

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:40:32 Z

Azure Chaos Studio now supports Workspaces and Scenarios, a faster, application-centric way to validate how your workloads hold up during real outages.Point a Workspace at your application's scope—a subscription, resource group, or service group—and Chaos
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Chaos Studio, Database for PostgreSQL, Microsoft Entra ID, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Export historical data from Log Analytics workspace with Export jobs

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:37:55 Z

The Log Analytics Export job enables you to export historical data from a Log Analytics workspace to an Azure Storage account based on a specified query and time range. This allows you to extract only the data you need and move it to external systems for
Update Type: Preview, Services: Machine Learning, Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Network Security Perimeter support for Azure Event Hubs

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:35:19 Z

Azure Event Hubs now supports Network Security Perimeter (NSP), enabling organizations to define a logical network isolation boundary for PaaS resources and control public network access through perimeter-based access rules.With Network Security Perimeter
Update Type: GA, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Confidential Computing support for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:33:53 Z

Azure Event Hubs Dedicated now supports Confidential Computing, enabling organizations to protect streaming data while it is being processed in memory. By leveraging hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs), customers can help safeguard sensit
Update Type: GA, Services: Event Hubs, Categories: Compliance, Security, Services

Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Chile Central

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:31:55 Z

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) is now generally available in Azure Chile Central, expanding regional availability for OpenShift deployments across South America. With the launch of Microsoft’s first Azure region in Chile, customers can now run fully manage
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Categories: Features, Regions & Datacenters, Open Source

Optimizing GitHub Copilot Cost in the Usage-Based Billing Era

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:43:00 Z

GitHub Copilot has become a core part of the modern developer workflow. We use it to complete code, explain unfamiliar repositories, write tests, refactor legacy applications, review pull requests, g...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

What’s New in Microsoft Foundry | June 2026

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:10:25 Z

Claude is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry. Here's everything else that shipped between Build 2026 and the end of June — autopilot agents, expanded Toolboxes and Routines, Agent Optimizer's private preview, and more. The post What’s New in Microsoft Foundry | June 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Coding with Logic Apps Standard: Local Functions

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:38:00 Z

Welcome to the Series Welcome to the first article in the Coding with Logic Apps Standard series. This series is for integration developers, architects, and modernization teams who want to go beyon...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Categories:

Introducing Kimi K2.7 Code in Microsoft Foundry

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:48:00 Z

Modern software engineering rarely happens in a single step, developers must refactor across large codebases, implement features spanning multiple files, and debug issues over long-running sessions. ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

See our new Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:20:06 Z

Design patterns are where good data modeling lives or dies. In a NoSQL database like Azure Cosmos DB, the difference between a schema that scales to millions of operations per second and one that fights you at every turn usually comes down to a handful of well‑understood patterns: how you partition, how you version, how […] The post See our new Azure Cosmos DB Design Patterns appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
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Rayfin AMA: Your top questions answered

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:00:00 Z

Your top questions about Rayfin answered!
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Fabric Runtime Release Channels

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:00:00 Z

Fabric Runtime Release Channels provide a structured and transparent way for customers to test upcoming runtime changes before they become the default. This feature helps organizations validate their production workloads early with these new changes in early access, avoid unexpected disruptions, and gain better control over Spark runtime upgrades. Instead of receiving silent updates that might break your production workloads, opt in to an early access release channel, test your workloads in a development or staging environment, and confirm compatibility before the update becomes default.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Use sensitivity labels to improve AI Agents accuracy and organizational alignment

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

The AI governance challenge As organizations deploy AI agents and skills at scale, they face a real challenge: how does the agent know which data is relevant to a given question? Without guidance, an agent might pull from too many sources, mix contexts inappropriately, or miss important nuances about what data is appropriate for a given scenario. The challenge is helping AI focus on the right data. Your organization needs AI to give specific, accurate answers grounded in the most relevant data. The classification you already have can do more Sensitivity labels in Fabric help organizations classify and protect their data based on sensitivity levels such as General, Confidential, or Highly Confidential and Custom label. They are defined in Microsoft Purview and can be applied to Fabric and Power BI items like reports, Semantic model and Lakehouse, where they can also be used to enforce protection policies and access control. Sensitivity labels are also available via public APIs, enabling programmatic access and use by agents and automated workflows. When an AI skill or agent processes a question, it doesn't just check permissions—it selects and prioritizes data to build an answer. By using sensitivity labels as guidance signals inside the skill itself, organizations can help the AI focus on the right data for the task. Sensitivity labels continue to enforce protection, but now they also help AI generate more relevant, context-aware answers. Organizations extend the value of classifications they already maintain, giving AI the same organizational awareness that guides human decision-making. Sensitivity labels already play a critical role in data protection, helping organizations control who can access data through policies and enforcement. At the same time, as AI-driven
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Purview, Categories:

Microsoft Entra ID-based access for Azure Blob Storage SFTP

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:54:08 Z

Microsoft Entra ID-based access for Azure Blob Storage SFTP is now generally available in all regions. You can now use Entra ID identities including guest users via Entra External Identities to securely connect to Azure Blob Storage over SFTP, without pro
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Storage, Categories: Features

Support 5x churn in Azure Site Recovery

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:00:33 Z

Azure Site Recovery now supports up to 5x churn (500 MB/s per VM). This major enhancement empowers customers to confidently run high IOPS workloads with Azure Site Recovery, ensuring robust disaster recovery for even the most demanding applications like d
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Management

Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - July 2026

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:00:00 Z

In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month July 2026's Ace Aviator: Bill Chesnut What's your role and...
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Need a different partition key in Azure Cosmos DB? Pick the right approach

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:37:33 Z

Once you create a container, its partition key is fixed at creation, and you can’t change it in place. However, if your original key starts causing problems like cross-partition queries or hot partitions, you need to consider your options for changing it. This post explains the mechanics of changing a partition key, and the tradeoffs between […] The post Need a different partition key in Azure Cosmos DB? Pick the right approach appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories:

Azure SDK Release (June 2026)

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:56:58 Z

Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes. The post Azure SDK Release (June 2026) appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
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Automatically Route Azure Service Health Alerts to the Right Service Owners Using Agentic Logic Apps

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:55:00 Z

As organizations adopt more Azure services, operational ownership naturally becomes distributed across multiple teams. The platform team may own Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the database team may ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Kubernetes Service, Categories:

Azure landing zone (ALZ) enters its next chapter

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:24:00 Z

Hey all 👋 I’ve got a genuinely exciting update to share today, and it’s one that’s been a long time coming: Azure landing zone (ALZ) is now an official Microsoft product, owned by the Azure Migrat...
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Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 on Azure Databricks

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:21:51 Z

Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 through Azure Databricks AI Model Serving. Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model to date, delivering near-Opus-level intelligence with Sonnet's cost efficiency and speed. Designed
Update Type: GA, Services: Databricks, Categories: Features

Securing zero-copy distribution patterns with OneLake security and shortcuts

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:00:00 Z

Aaron Merrill - Principal Product Manager
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Security

Simplifying secure data access with Delegated OneLake Shortcuts

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 Z

IntroductionData rarely stays in one place. As organizations standardize Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, the same datasets need to be reused across teams, domains, workspaces, and increasingly across tenant boundaries. The challenge is no longer moving data; it is sharing it securely, consistently, and at scale without creating copies, breaking governance, or forcing every consumer to be individually provisioned at the source.OneLake Shortcuts already solve a large part of this problem. A shortcut presents data where people need it while the data stays in its original location, enabling a true zero-copy approach to distribution. By default, OneLake Shortcuts use pass-through authentication: when a user reads a shortcut, Fabric accesses the target data using that signed-in user’s identity, and the data owner controls access directly on the target.Pass-through is the right model for many collaborative scenarios, but customers have consistently told us it does not fit every access pattern. Two points came up frequently:Access management does not scale. When a curated dataset must be served to thousands of downstream users across multiple teams, the data owner becomes responsible for granting and maintaining every individual user’s permission on the source, an operational bottleneck that grows with every new consumer.Cross-tenant sharing is harder than it should be. Multi-tenant organizations told us that they need to access data residing in OneLake across their own tenant.These are not edge cases. They are everyday realities for enterprises building governed, reusable data products on Fabric. The preview of Delegated OneLake Shortcuts — including delegated sharing both within a tenant and across tenants — gives data owners a simpler, governed way to distribute data without compromising on security.Introducing delegated OneLake ShortcutsDelegated OneLake Shortcuts add a second authentication option to the existing shortcut experience you already know. Instead of accessing
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Security, Management

Workspace Outbound Access Protection (OAP) for Real-Time Intelligence

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z

Workspace Outbound Access Protection (Preview) for key Real-Time Intelligence experiences in Microsoft Fabric, helping organizations reduce data exfiltration risk while keeping common real-time ingestion, analytics, dashboarding, and automation workflows running. Read on to learn which RTI items are supported today and how this preview helps admins apply stronger workspace-level security controls across real-time solutions.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Security

Foundry Control Plane and Agent 365: Two Control Planes Walk Into an Enterprise

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:00:00 Z

May 15, 2026 | 8 min read If you’ve been paying attention to Microsoft over the past six months, you’ve noticed a recurring theme: agents are everywhere. They’re reasoning over your SharePoint f...
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Auditing and Telemetry for the Agent Governance Toolkit - Getting Started with .NET Core

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:35:00 Z

We've entered an era where AI agents autonomously invoke tools — reading and writing files, calling APIs, querying databases. Convenient as this is, without a mechanism to control who can call what, ...
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Upcoming Change: NTLM Removal in Git (libcurl) – Impact to Azure DevOps Server Customers

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:25:39 Z

Overview In September 2026, NTLM support will be removed from libcurl, which is used by Git for HTTP(S) operations. As a result, Git operations over HTTPS against Azure DevOps Server (on-premises) will stop working for customers who rely on NTLM authentication. This change is part of a broader industry move toward more secure authentication mechanisms. […] The post Upcoming Change: NTLM Removal in Git (libcurl) – Impact to Azure DevOps Server Customers appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

New Powershell module: Az.PostgreSQLFlexibleServer

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:19:25 Z

We’re excited to introduce the newly renamed Az.PostgreSQLFlexibleServer PowerShell module, delivering a more streamlined experience for you to manage Azure Database for PostgreSQL with PowerShell. Building on the capabilities of the previous Az.PostgreSq
Update Type: GA, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Categories: Features

Document PII playground sample in Microsoft Foundry NextGen

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:04:40 Z

Document-based PII detection in Azure AI Language now ships an initial playground experience in the Microsoft Foundry NextGen portal. The playground loads a prepared sample document, runs it through the document-based PII feature, and shows the redacted o
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Document PII NextGen Playground in Azure AI Language

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:01:07 Z

Azure AI Language now offers a refreshed Document PII playground in general availability, giving customers a faster way to evaluate personally identifiable information detection on documents. The playground ships with curated sample inputs and outputs, so
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Fabric data agent API is now public: Build Fabric data agents into your tools and pipelines

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 Z

The Fabric data agent API is now public. Developers can now automate how Fabric data agents are created, configured, updated, and published from their own tools, pipelines, and backend services. The primary purpose of the management-plane public API is lifecycle management: managing and updating data agent configuration in a supported, repeatable way. With new public API support, the Fabric data agent SDK can run outside Fabric, giving teams a consistent way to manage data agents programmatically while keeping the in-product experience unchanged. What changed? Until now, most of what you did with a Fabric data agent happened inside Microsoft Fabric. You created a data agent in the Fabric portal, wired up your data sources, configured the agent, and tested it. You could also use the data agent SDK, but only from within a Fabric notebook. Either way, the work stayed in one place. With this update the Fabric data agent SDK now runs on the Fabric public API. After authenticating to Fabric, you can now programmatically: Create and manage data agent artifacts.Add, remove, and configure data sources.Configure agent instructions, data source instructions, and example queries.Update and publish data agents from your own code.Integrate data agent management into local development, CI/CD pipelines, internal portals, containers, Azure Functions, and backend services.Manage and update data agent configurations for lifecycle management. Why this mattersIf you’re only working in the Fabric portal, this update won’t change your day-to-day. The impact mostly shows up once you need to automate or scale — when managing data agents across environments, tools, or pipelines becomes part of your workflow. A few examples follow: You manage many workspaces and want to provision the same data agent
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Functions, Categories: Services, Management

Instant Access via application consistent restore points

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:59:39 Z

Azure introduces Instant Access for VM Restore Points, enabling you to restore disks immediately after a restore point is created—without waiting for background data replication.Key benefits:Faster recovery (lower RTO): Restore disks instantly—no wait for
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Managed Disks, Categories: Features

Azure Storage Mover now supports migration from Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:56:50 Z

Azure Storage Mover now supports cloud-to-cloud migration of data from Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to Azure Blob Storage, helping organizations simplify multi-cloud consolidation onto Azure.Using the S3-compatible interface, customers can migrate data from
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Key Vault, Azure Storage, Private Link, Categories:

How to build long-running MCP tools on Azure Functions

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:10:00 Z

Recently, a customer building servers with the Azure Functions MCP extension reached out and asked: How do I handle tools that take longer than the client is willing to wait? This becomes esp...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Categories:

Agent-to-Agent Communication: Connecting Foundry and LangGraph Agents via A2A

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:00:00 Z

As AI systems move from single agents to multi-agent workflows, one challenge becomes obvious: how do agents built in different frameworks discover each other, communicate, and collaborate reliably? ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Supercharge your real-time data ingestion: What's new in Fabric Eventstream connectors

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:08:53 Z

Discover the latest Fabric Eventstream connector updates—bringing stronger enterprise security, broader source coverage, and simpler real-time ingestion across private networks, Kafka, Service Bus, IoT Hub, Oracle CDC, and HTTP.Now available: Connector private network support, Apache Kafka Connector , Azure Service Bus Connector, Custom CA and mTLS support are generally available—plus new preview capabilities for workspace identity support for Azure Event Hubs, IoT Hub metadata, Oracle CDC, and HTTP pagination.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Service Bus, Microsoft Fabric, IoT Hub, Event Hubs, Categories: Security, Services

Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 Z

Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure Chaos Studio, Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Client-side data integrity protections in Azure Blob Storage

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:45:26 Z

Azure Blob Storage has long supported data integrity validation, starting with MD5 as part of the original HTTP standards and adding CRC64-NVME support in 2019. Today, CRC64-NVME is now integrated into the latest Azure Blob SDKs for .NET, C++, and JavaScr
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Categories: SDK and Tools

Azure Container Apps Express for Shipping Container Apps Fast

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:10:00 Z

ACA Express Apps are a strong fit for teams that need to ship quickly and can't afford long platform setup cycles. This includes startups, internal platform teams, and product groups deploying APIs, ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Apps, Categories:

Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:00:51 Z

Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Item Recovery in Microsoft Fabric

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:00:00 Z

With Item Recovery in Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available), you can now recover deleted items across supported workloads, restore items through the Workspace Recycle bin or REST API, and configure tenant-wide recovery policies.
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Now Generally Available in Microsoft Foundry

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:19:00 Z

On June 29, 2026, we announced the general availability of Claude in Microsoft Foundry, giving enterprises a production-ready path to build with Claude models in the Azure ecosystem. Today, we’re con...
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

AI-assisted Synapse Spark and pipeline migration to Microsoft Fabric from the command line

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:20:00 Z

Many organizations running Apache Spark workloads on Azure Synapse Analytics are planning their move to Microsoft Fabric for a more unified analytics experience. This preview introduces an AI-assisted migration skill that helps move Synapse Spark artifacts to Fabric from the command line, using REST APIs and guided steps throughout the process.The Synapse Migration skill manages the end-to-end migration of Spark pools, lake databases, notebooks, and Spark job definitions (SJDs) into their Fabric equivalents. You provide a Synapse workspace URL and a target Fabric workspace, and the skill helps resolve dependencies, refactor code where needed, and generate a detailed migration report. A companion Pipeline Migration skill can also move the Synapse Data Factory pipelines that orchestrate those notebooks, so both Spark artifacts and their workflows land in Fabric.The migration is idempotent by design, so it is safe to re-run if interrupted. It automatically detects migration blockers, such as C#/.NET notebooks and GPU pools with no Fabric equivalent, and flags them clearly so you can plan around those gaps.Migration phasesThe Synapse migration skill orchestrates the migration flow, guiding users through the migration of all items in a predefined sequence while managing internal dependencies between those items.Phase 0: Spark pools → Fabric environments — Mirrors pool configuration; upgrades runtime to Spark 3.5 (Runtime 1.3)Phase 1: Lake database → Lakehouse — Migrates database schemas and tables into Fabric LakehousesPhase 1b: Storage path shortcuts — Scans code for abfss:// paths and creates OneLake shortcutsPhase 2: Notebooks → Fabric notebooks — Migrates notebooks with automatic code refactoring for Fabric compatibilityPhase 3: SJD → Fabric Spark job definitions — Transfers job definitions with full configuration preservationFinal: Validate and report — Cross-validates all migrated items, flags blockers, and generates a summaryTwo migration strategiesDifferent teams
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Data Factory, Categories:

Behind the Build with Gigamon: Enriching Microsoft Sentinel with Network-Derived Telemetry

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Behind the Build is an ongoing series spotlighting standout Microsoft partner collaborations. Each edition dives into the technical and strategic decisions that shape real-world integrations—highligh...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

The AI-first SOC: Copilot, UEBA, threat intelligence, and SOC optimization

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl The portal change was the easy part. The real upside is the operating model it unlocks—generative AI in every workflow, behav...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Whats new in Microsoft Sentinel: June 2026

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Welcome back to What's new in Microsoft Sentinel. In June, Sentinel SIEM’s Advanced Security Information Model (ASIM) broadens its normalization, so one analytic rule can reach more sources with less...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories: Security

Practice the Hard Call: Real-Time Voice Training with Live Voice Practice

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:47:00 Z

Practice the Hard Call: Real-Time Voice Training with Live Voice Practice Customer service runs on conversations that are hard to have and harder to practice. A frustrated customer with a billing c...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Azure Red Hat OpenShift in FY26: Modernization, Production AI, and a Decade of Partnership

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:13:00 Z

A look back at a milestone year for Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and the Microsoft | Red Hat partnership
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Announcing General Availability of Client-Side Data Integrity Protections in Azure Blob Storage

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:03:00 Z

We are excited to announce the General Availability of client-side data integrity in Azure Blob Storage. Blob Storage has long supported integrity validation, starting with MD5 as part of the origina...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Storage, Categories:

Your readiness playbook: adoption helper, costs, APIs, and the checklist

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl The transition is not a project—it is a sequence of small, ordered decisions. Here is the readiness tool that scores your env...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Secure Azure and Fabric Event Flows Across Workspaces with Outbound Access Protection

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Lock down cross-workspace event flows in Fabric: new Outbound Access Protection lets you control which workspaces can consume Azure and Fabric events—blocking unauthorized access by default until you explicitly allow the Real-Time Events connector.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:00:00 Z

Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available, hosted on Azure, and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra, giving teams a faster path from agent experimentation to production.
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Accelerate modern Linux workloads with Azure Files

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:00 Z

Azure Files combines familiar file access with built-in performance, data protection, security, and Azure service integration.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Service, Azure Migrate, Azure Storage, Categories:

Spring AI 2.0 is GA: Vector Search, Memory, and Agents on Azure Cosmos DB

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:00:53 Z

The wait is over. Spring AI 2.0 is generally available, and Azure Cosmos DB is right there with it. With this release, Spring AI graduates into a mature, production-ready framework for building AI applications in Java, and Azure Cosmos DB ships dedicated, vendor-maintained integrations that plug straight into the Spring AI ecosystem. The Spring AI 2.0 GA announcement […] The post Spring AI 2.0 is GA: Vector Search, Memory, and Agents on Azure Cosmos DB appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
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Routing agent traffic is really three decisions

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 Z

Agents make many LLM calls in loops, so routing each to the right model — cheap self-hosted or frontier — keeps them affordable. Three decisions on AKS.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Categories:

Azure Developer CLI (azd) – May and June 2026

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:53:19 Z

A combined May and June recap. A new azd tool command group, the cross-platform azd exec runner, safer multi-layer provisioning, an interactive Ctrl+C cancel prompt, Go support for Azure Functions, self-contained extension bundles, per-tenant subscription filters, and a long list of correctness fixes for parallel Container Apps deploys and authentication. The post Azure Developer CLI (azd) – May and June 2026 appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Container Apps, Categories:

Evaluating Multi-Turn Agents: A Quality Study of Microsoft Foundrys Multi-Turn Evaluators

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:00:00 Z

Authors: Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Salma Elshafey, Shuo Qiu, José Santos, Ilya Matiach, Vivek Bhadauria, Morteza Ziyadi, April Kwong LLM-as-judge evaluations are a critical part of any agent lifecycle. Sin...
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The performance dividend: Optimizing PostgreSQL on Azure directly in Visual Studio Code

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:00:00 Z

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.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, HorizonDB, Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Practice the Hard Call: Real-Time Voice Training with Live Voice Practice

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:16:00 Z

Customer service runs on conversations that are hard to have and harder to practice. A frustrated customer with a billing charge that was never fixed. A cancellation that turns into a retention call....
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Use built-in Fabric data protection to get your data AI-ready

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:23:30 Z

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. Microsoft Fabric builds these capabilities directly into the platform through its integration with Microsoft Purview, so you can adopt AI with confidence instead of trading productivity for protection.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Purview, Categories: Security

Azure IoT guidance for DigiCert Global Root G1 trust-store updates in sovereign clouds

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:01:00 Z

At a glance The technology industry is retiring trust in an older root certificate - the DigiCert Global Root G1. As operating systems, firmware images, and CA certificate bundles update over...
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Using Bulk Copy API for faster ingestion in Fabric Data Warehouse

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:25:00 Z

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.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

On-premises data gateway June 2026 release

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:00:00 Z

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 security and align gateway authentication with Microsoft's modern identity platform. This change reduces administrative complexity while providing stronger protection for authentication tokens. Learn more by exploring Acquire a token to call a web API by using Web Account Manager (desktop app). Apache Log4j update To further strengthen gateway security, this release updates the bundled Apache Log4j library to version 2.25.4. The update addresses vulnerabilities identified in the previous version and helps organizations maintain a secure gateway environment. New diagnostics capabilitiesOrganizations can now enable gateway diagnostic uploads through a consent-driven model that provides greater control over how operational data is shared. Enable the Diagnostics settings, when enabled the diagnostic information can help accelerate troubleshooting and provide richer insights when investigating gateway issues.Diagnostic information is also integrated directly into the Dataflow Gen2 run experience, allowing administrators and support teams to access relevant insights without switching between multiple tools and diagnostic sources.Note: Your gateway must be running the latest On-premises Data Gateway version to use these diagnostic capabilities. We strongly recommend keeping the on-premises data gateway updated to the latest version to take advantage of new capabilities, security improvements, and troubleshooting. enh
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Security, Services

The governance shift: RBAC, URBAC, data lake, and MSSP

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:11:00 Z

Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl Governance is the silent dependency every transition trips on. Read about how roles, data tiering, and multi-tenant operation...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Fabric Influencers Spotlight: June 2026

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z

A monthly post to shine a bright light on Microsoft MVPs & Fabric Super Users
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Migrate from Azure Blueprints by January 31, 2027

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:00:03 Z

In September 2023, we announced Azure Blueprints would retire on July 11, 2026. We're extending that timeline to January 31, 2027, with phased retirement beginning July 31, 2026.What's changing?July 31, 2026, you won't be able to create new blueprint defi
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Blueprints, Categories: Management, Retirements

Building Practical Rowhammer Protection into Azure Cobalt 200

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:00:00 Z

With Azure Cobalt 200, Microsoft took the opportunity to re-think how to deliver advanced memory security defenses through deep hardware-software codesign across silicon, platform, firmware, and tele...
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Which Azure Cosmos DB Role Does My App Need?

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:00:50 Z

In the previous post in the series, we covered the security decisions you make on day one. In this part, we will talk about how to give your app access to Cosmos DB data, using roles and a managed identity instead of keys. The situation You’ve built your app. It works locally. Now you’re ready […] The post Which Azure Cosmos DB Role Does My App Need? appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Categories: Security

A Better Way to View Logs in Kudu for Azure App Service on Linux

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:46:00 Z

Logs are often the fastest way to understand what is happening inside your application. Whether you are investigating startup behavior, runtime errors, failed requests, dependency issues, or unexpect...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

IPv6 Dual-Stack Endpoints for Azure Container Registry (Public Preview)

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:28:00 Z

By Johnson Shi, Aviral Takkar, Bin Du Introduction Two of the most common networking questions we hear from teams running Azure Container Registry (ACR) are: "Can my registry serve clients on...
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Know before you optimize: Diagnose Lakehouse table health with a single T-SQL command

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:00:00 Z

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 firefightingIf you use Lakehouse tables through the SQL analytics endpoint, you may notice queries gradually slowing down. Dashboards lag, and users report degraded performance even though the logical data hasn’t changed. The root cause is often physical. Parquet files drift into a suboptimal layout over time, impacting query performance.Until now, diagnosing this required leaving T-SQL entirely. You had to open a Spark notebook, inspect Delta logs, check file sizes manually, or escalate to Microsoft Support. For many data engineers, this means context-switching away from their natural workflow and spending hours on what should be a quick diagnostic.Without diagnostics, many teams resort to running OPTIMIZE (a Spark operation that compacts small files and improves data layout) on a fixed schedule, whether the table needs it or not. That wastes compute and capacity units on tables that are perfectly healthy, while tables that actually need attention slip through the cracks. The solution: Check health first, then decidesp_get_table_health_metrics provides a simple, T-SQL-native way to assess table health before taking action. With a single command, you get a complete view of your table's storage health. As shown in the following figure, the stored procedure returns anomaly indicators and key storage metrics that help identify performance risks:Figure: Results of sp_get_table_health_metricsThe procedure returns:Anomaly detection: the PotentialAnomalyType and PotentialAnomalyDescription columns tell you if something needs attention. ‘Too many small files’, ‘Too many deleted rows’, ‘No recent checkpoint’, ‘Invalid file stat
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Azure Functions MCP Extension: What’s New at Build 2026

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:20:35 Z

A roundup of what shipped in the Azure Functions MCP extension since preview: resource and prompt triggers, MCP Apps, built-in MCP authentication, structured and rich content, fluent .NET configuration APIs, and what is coming next. The post Azure Functions MCP Extension: What’s New at Build 2026 appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
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Application Gateway for Containers – Inference gateway

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:43 Z

Application Gateway for Containers is extending its ingress gateway feature set with new AI gateway capabilities. The new inference gateway capability brings the Kubernetes Gateway API Inference Extension to Application Gateway for Containers, enabling lo
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Kubernetes Service, Application Gateway, Categories: Features, Security, Services

Introducing Cohere Command A+ in Foundry

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:57:00 Z

Your enterprise agents need to reason across 48 languages, process documents with images and tables, and orchestrate multi-step workflows all without switching models. Command A+, Cohere's 218B-param...
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What’s new across Microsoft SQL in 2026 so far (SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric)

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:05:00 Z

We’re halfway through 2026, and Microsoft SQL has not slowed down. Since SQLCon/FabCon in March (where we released a ton of things, and those updates can be found in the What's New in Microsoft SQL at SQLCon/FabCon | Data Exposed video), we shipped a wave of updates across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric, with Microsoft Build 2026 as the centerpiece. If you want the details on Build, start with my recap blog, The Era of the Agentic Database Developer.This post collects everything new from mid-March through today, organized by service so you can find what matters to you. Every item is tagged Preview or Generally Available with a link. You can also catch new episodes on the Azure SQL YouTube channel, where we go deeper on a lot of what’s below.Without further ado, here’s the comprehensive list of updates, with references for you to learn more.Updates across Azure SQL and SQL database in FabricGenerally AvailableRegex support for LOB types in T-SQL (varchar(max) and nvarchar(max) up to 2 MB; shipped in SQL Server 2025 CU5)Microsoft Entra server-level logins and fixed server rolesGenerate Embeddings function (AI_GENERATE_EMBEDDINGS) and External Model object supportPreviewChange Event Streaming across Hyperscale and SQL Managed Instance; SQL database in Fabric coming soonRegex-powered Dynamic Data Masking (Preview coming soon)Local time zone support for Hyperscale, SQL Managed Instance, and SQL database in Fabric (Preview coming soon)Azure SQL DatabaseGenerally AvailableVersionless keys for Transparent Data EncryptionPreviewTransparent Data Encryption now supports AES keys160 and 192 vCore Premium-series options for HyperscaleSQL database in Microsoft FabricPreviewFull collation supportMigration assistantFabric Apps (with SQL database!) SQL ServerGenerally AvailableCumulative Update #5 for SQL Server 2025 RTMCumulative Update #25 for SQL Server 2022 RTMSecurity Update for SQL Server 2025 RTM CU4Tools and developerSQL Server Management St
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, SQL Database, Categories: Security, Services, Management

An Operational Toolchain for Microsoft Foundry Private Networks

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z

Enterprise teams deploying Microsoft Foundry into private networks can lose hours to failures caused not by the template itself but by surrounding operational state. Each failed deployment can cost t...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Mistral Document AI (with OCR 4) and Mistral Medium 3.5 arrive in Microsoft Foundry

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:01:00 Z

In production AI systems, different problems require different model capabilities. Document ingestion, reasoning, coding, and automation workflows rarely rely on a single model. They depend on select...
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A guide to innovating threat hunting with Microsoft Sentinel custom graph

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:35:00 Z

Microsoft Sentinel platform offers a growing list of tools and features, with graph being a cornerstone capability. Sentinel graph is a relationship-first method for organizing and querying data wi...
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Azure NetApp Files migration assistant

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:15:55 Z

Azure NetApp Files migration assistant (with SnapMirror) provides efficient and cost-effective data migration leveraging ONTAP's built-in replication engine for seamless transition from on-premises or CVO/other cloud providers to Azure NetApp Files (ANF).
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure NetApp Files, Categories: Features

Only 8.5% of MCP Servers Use OAuth - Here's How to Host One Securely on App Service

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:20:00 Z

The Model Context Protocol exploded onto the scene because it's easy. Stand up a server, expose a few tools, point Claude or VS Code at it, and your agent can suddenly read files, hit APIs, and run c...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

Billing for Microsoft Fabric Planning

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:00:00 Z

A business-first approach to economics on Microsoft FabricEnterprise planning is evolving across industries - from an isolated finance exercise to a cross-functional capability that spans finance, operations, supply chain, HR, and executive leadership, but the tools and pricing models behind it have not kept up. Planning in Microsoft Fabric (Preview) is bringing planning, analytics, reporting, and data management into one integrated experience in Microsoft Fabric, moving organizations from disconnected processes to real-time, data-driven decisions.As customers adopt Fabric Planning, one question comes up: How does billing work and why is it designed this way? This blog post explains how the model is built for outcomes, impact, and predictability, not just usage.Why pricing for Fabric Planning is fundamentally different from traditional EPM solutionsEnterprise planning behaves differently from traditional analytics or data workloads. Analytics and data workloads are continuous, predictable, and incremental. Planning is cyclical with high-intensity usage during month-end, quarterly forecasting, and annual planning and lower levels of interaction between cycles. This breaks the two common pricing models:Pure consumption pricing undervalues planning, because the critical work happens in short bursts.Seat-based licensing feels rigid, forcing you to pay for users who participate only occasionally.Fabric Planning introduces a hybrid pricing model that reflects real-world usage patterns, with role and session-based pricing for users and job-based pricing for automation. It’s predictable during peak cycles and flexible across a broad set of participants.Figure: User roles segregated with different capabilities.Role-based pricingEach role contributes differently to the planning lifecycle, and the pricing reflects that:Viewers: Executives, decision-makers and business, who consume plans and insights. Read-only access; priced low to drive adoption.Stakeholders: depart
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Management, Pricing & Offerings

Multi-cloud data architecture patterns using Fabric Data Factory

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z

Multi Cloud Data integration and transformation made easy and painless by Fabric Data Factory.
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Data Factory, Categories:

MCP Just Went Stateless - What the 2026 Spec Changes About Scaling on App Service

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:10:00 Z

A couple of months ago I wrote about scaling MCP servers behind App Service's built-in load balancer. The trick back then was to lean on stateless HTTP transport so any instance could serve any reque...
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Azure Copilot Observability Agent is generally available, with autonomous operations in preview

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:52:00 Z

Complex cloud environments have outpaced manual operations. Agentic cloud operations connect people, tools, and data to streamline investigation workflows and move teams from scattered signals to evi...
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Defending your Memory in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service against memory poisoning

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z

One of the things that makes agents genuinely useful is that they can remember. Instead of treating every interaction as completely new, an agent can carry context across sessions, recall preferences...
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From insight to action: The next phase of agentic cloud operations

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:45:00 Z

What if your cloud environment could help you move from insight to action in real time, with systems already working through the next set of decisions?
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Azure SDK Release (May 2026)

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:37:37 Z

Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes. The post Azure SDK Release (May 2026) appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.
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More resilient Spark jobs with Efficient Scaledown

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:00:00 Z

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. It decouples shuffle data from executor lifetime by routing shuffle output to Azure Blob Storage (or migrating it on demand), enabling faster cluster scale-down, improved fault tolerance, lower compute costs, and resilient jobs—with no changes to your queries, notebooks, or pipelines.The challenge: Shuffle data pins executors and drives up costWhen Spark processes a query, it redistributes data between stages—a shuffle. By default, shuffle data is stored on each executor’s local disk, creating a tight coupling:Executors cannot be released until every downstream consumer has finished reading their shuffle data.If an executor is lost (crash, spot reclamation, or scale-down), Spark throws a FetchFailedException and must re-execute entire stages.Idle executors pile up because autoscale cannot reclaim nodes that still hold shuffle blocks, preventing Spark from scaling down effectively.This tight coupling is the single biggest reason clusters can’t scale down quickly and why shuffle-heavy jobs have unpredictable runtimes and inflated costs.How Efficient Scaledown solves thisEfficient Scaledown breaks the coupling between executor lifetime and shuffle data through four cooperating capabilities:Remote Shuffle Manager (RSM): Allows Fabric Spark to read and write shuffle data to remote Azure Blob Storage instead of executor local disks. RSM coordinates where shuffle blocks are stored and retrieved.Shuffle Migration: Moves shuffle blocks off an executor before it is decommissioned instead of dropping them.Decision Layer: Pe
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Storage, Categories:

Improve performance for Python UDFs and complex data types in Microsoft Fabric’s Native Execution Engine

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z

Where this matters: A concrete exampleFor example, you have a data pipeline (extract, transform, load—ETL) that ingests JSON telemetry events, each containing nested arrays of user actions. Your pipeline uses a Python UDF to apply custom business rules—say, classifying events based on logic that doesn’t map cleanly to SQL expressions.Before NEE, this pipeline hits two performance penalties at once:The Python/Scala UDF forces serialization between the JVM and a Python worker for every batch.The nested arrays cause the engine to fall back from optimized columnar execution to slower row-based processing.With NEE enabled, both operations run in the native execution path. Internal benchmarks show 2–5x faster execution, depending on UDF complexity and data nesting depth.Why Python or Scala UDFs and complex types have been slowIn standard Spark execution, Python or Scala UDFs require the engine to:Serialize rows from Spark’s internal format.Transfer data to a separate Python worker process.Execute the UDF, then serialize results back to the JVM.Each round-trip adds CPU overhead, memory pressure, and breaks vectorized execution. Similarly, complex data types (arrays, maps, structs) can force the engine off its optimized columnar path into row-based processing—negating the benefits of native execution for the rest of your query.As a result, teams either avoid UDFs (rewriting logic in SQL or Scala) or flatten nested schemas at ingestion time, which adds extra engineering effort.What the Native Execution Engine does differentlyNEE processes Python or Scala UDFs and complex types directly in the native columnar engine. Specifically:Python or Scala UDFs: The engine reduces serialization roundtrips between the JVM and Python, keeping data in columnar format longer. Vectorized UDFs see the largest gains, but standard UDFs also improve.Complex data types: Arrays, maps, and structs are processed natively in the columnar engine. Operations like explode, map access, and struct field e
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Virtual Machines, Categories:

Azure VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement now on September 30, 2028

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:30:01 Z

Microsoft announced the retirement of the AV36 node type on June 30, 2028, that date has changed to align with VMware’s roadmap. Broadcom will end support for the current AV36 version with vSphere 8 on September 30, 2027, and the AV36 SKU is not compatibl
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure VMware Solution, Categories: Retirements

Event-Driven Copy Job Execution with Fabric Activator

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

IntroductionModern data platforms are increasingly moving toward event-driven architectures where data flows react to events or changes instead of running on rigid schedules.In Microsoft Fabric, two powerful capabilities enable this vision:Copy job: the simplest and most scalable way to move data across multiple clouds and tenants.Activator: a real-time engine that monitors data and reacts to events.A key enhancement brings these two capabilities closer together: you can now invoke Copy jobs directly from Activator—no pipeline required. This unlocks a simpler, faster, and more efficient way to build event-driven data movement in Fabric.Why this matters The limitations of scheduled data movement Traditionally, data movement in enterprise systems relies on fixed schedules:Run every five minutesRun every hourRun dailyWhile simple to set up, this approach introduces several challenges:Inefficient execution (empty runs): Most scheduled jobs run even when no data has changed, leading to unnecessary computing usage and cost.Latency tradeoff: Running more frequently increases cost, while running less frequently increases data latency.Operational overhead: Managing schedules across hundreds or thousands of tables can quickly become complex and difficult to maintain.Activator + Copy Job: A natural fit What customers need is simple: Move data only when something happens or changes. For example, when a table in OneLake is updated or when a new file lands in storage.This is exactly the scenario where Data Activator shines. Activating data movement based on events is a natural combination of these two capabilities:Activator monitors data and detects eventsCopy job moves data efficiently across systemsWith this new capability, you can now connect them directly, enabling true event-driven data movement without introducing additional orchestration layers. Quick tutorial: Set up Activator to invoke a Copy job Step 1: Create a Copy jobDefine your source and de
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Boost performance with NFS nconnect on Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:45:00 Z

Azure VMware Solution now supports nconnect=4 with Azure NetApp Files datastores each ESXi host opens up to four parallel TCP connections to a single NFS datastore, raising throughput and lowering la...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Azure NetApp Files, Azure VMware Solution, Categories:

How Many Copies of Each Layer Does Your Container Registry Actually Need?

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:20:00 Z

Authors: Payal Mahesh and Vicky Lin Azure Container Registry team: Jeanine Burke and Johnson Shi Introduction It's Monday morning. You spin up a fresh 1,000-node AKS cluster for a big training ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Container Registry, Categories:

How to Use Deep Agents with Azure Cosmos DB – Plan, act, and verify against operational data

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:21:18 Z

Deep Agents is an agent harness built on LangGraph, for agents that need to work through a task over many steps instead of a single LLM call. The agent runs tools, looks at the results, and uses that to pick the next one, keeping a todo list as it goes. On top of that loop […] The post How to Use Deep Agents with Azure Cosmos DB – Plan, act, and verify against operational data appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
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Retirement of Azure DevOps issuer in Workload identity federation service connections

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:35:34 Z

We are announcing the deprecation of the Azure DevOps issuer in workload identity federation (WIF) service connections, with planned retirement on July 1, 2027. The Azure DevOps issuer uses the https://vstoken.dev.azure.com prefix in federated credentials. This change is part of Microsoft’s broader initiative to standardize on the Microsoft Entra issuer across Azure services that implement […] The post Retirement of Azure DevOps issuer in Workload identity federation service connections appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories: Services, Retirements

Azure Firewall explicit proxy Migration Guide

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:21:00 Z

Purpose of the blog This blog outlines the key upcoming changes to Azure Firewall explicit proxy and provides detailed migration guidance for customers using PAC file–based configurations. It also...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Firewall, Categories:

On the road to .NET 10 Support: Logic Apps Migration from In-Proc to Out-of-Proc hosting model

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:42:00 Z

We will begin this migration in the coming weeks. For most customers, the change will be automatic and require no action. However, some apps will need customer updates before they can move to the...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

ARM MCP Server: A Catalog of 24 PoCs

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:57:00 Z

Introduction The Azure Resource Manager MCP Server is a remote Model Context Protocol server that gives AI agents first-class access to Azure infrastructure operations. Six tools is a small surface...
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Cross-Region Model Connectivity Options in Microsoft Foundry: Supported Patterns and Tradeoffs

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:00:00 Z

Model availability in Microsoft Foundry is region-dependent. The region approved for your project may not be the one where the model or Foundry Agent Service support you need is available. That creat...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

New string functions and operators in Fabric Data Warehouse

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:00:00 Z

The new preview capabilities in Fabric Data Warehouse for approximate string matching, along with modern string-processing functions and operators simplify everyday string processing with T‑SQL language. Together, these additions help developers handle variation directly in SQL while improving query clarity and portability.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Revolutionizing Document Intelligence: Scaling Construction Industries with AI-Driven Extraction

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:52:00 Z

Introduction Generative AI (GenAI) is poised to transform the construction industry by addressing chronic challenges such as low productivity, cost overruns, schedule delays, and labor shortages. B...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Categories:

Outcome-driven learning systems: Enterprise RL with OpenEnv and Foundry

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:37:18 Z

We shipped a lot at Build 2026: hosted agents, Toolboxes, Foundry IQ, Memory, Managed Compute, fine‑tuning, Frontier Tuning, and a new evaluation and optimization stack. Read as a feature list, it is a lot to hold in your head. So here is a simpler way to see it: these are the parts you need to […] The post Outcome-driven learning systems: Enterprise RL with OpenEnv and Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.
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Generally Available: Microsoft Entra Server Principals and Server Roles for Azure SQL Database

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:27:00 Z

The problem we're solving Previously, Microsoft Entra identities in Azure SQL Database could only be created as contained database users - principals scoped to a single database with no server-leve...
Update Type: GA, Services: SQL Database, Categories:

Monitoring weather conditions in real-time using AI and Fabric Eventstream

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:00:00 Z

Summer heat meets the world stageThe FIFA World Cup 2026 kicked off this month across 16 host cities in the United States, Mexico, and Canada—where it is currently summer, including in cities like Miami, Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta. These cities aren’t exactly known for mild June weather. Player safety protocols, fan comfort advisories, and broadcast scheduling all depend on real-time environmental conditions at each venue. The data exists (weather APIs publish readings every few minutes), but standing up parallel monitoring infrastructure for 11 cities?That’s traditionally a full afternoon’s worth of infrastructure setup, portal configurations and query and dashboard authoring.We built a real-time weather monitoring system for all 11 US-based World Cup venues in under five minutes using natural language prompts and Fabric Eventstream and Eventhouse AI Skills. No portal clicking. No copy-paste-modify-repeat.From 42+ steps to one sentenceBuilding a single Eventstream pipeline through the Fabric portal requires navigating menus, selecting source types, configuring properties, wiring operators, choosing destinations, and publishing. That’s roughly 42 interactions (clicks and text box entries) and more than five minutes per source. Multiply that by 11 cities and you’re looking at 60 minutes or more of repetitive work before any data starts flowing.With Eventstream AI Skills for Fabric, all we needed to do is type a single prompt describing the desired outcome:Create an eventstream named WorldCupUSCitiesWeatherFeed for all 11 US World Cup host cities including Miami, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Kansas City, San Francisco, New York, and Boston. Ingest real-time weather for each city, filter for heat-stress conditions where relativeHumidity exceeds 70 percent, and land the filtered events in my WorldCupCities KQL database. Set the optional locationName field in the weather feed to the name of the city the weather feed is for.The AI skill
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Migrating from MSEE Hairpin Routing to AVNM Mesh for Large-Scale VNet-to-VNet Connectivity

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:41:00 Z

Introduction A common pattern in large Azure deployments is to route VNet-to-VNet traffic through Microsoft Enterprise Edge (MSEE) routers. This happens when spoke VNets in a hub-and-spoke topology...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Network, Categories:

Securing the Power Query connector ecosystem in Fabric

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:30:00 Z

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 widely used data platforms.Over the past year, customers have been clear about what they expect from connectivity: strong security posture, predictable behavior, and long-term support. In response, we have been modernizing how data connectors are built, shipped, and supported—placing a deliberate emphasis on securing the connector supply chain and clarifying the connector lifecycle.Securing the connector supply chainMicrosoft is committed to securing the connector supply chain. That’s why Microsoft is now bringing all connectors in-house. This commitment to directly providing our customers with the most secure and reliable connectors decreases long-term security and operational risk for our valued enterprise customers.Our approach moving forward is clear: to build and maintain Microsoft-owned, in-house connectors to:Provide the most secure, stable connectors for our customers.Ensure the highest quality connectors, equipped to most quickly enable new features, and capabilities as the connector evolves.Improve Microsoft security, compliance, and operational standards end-to-end.This shift aligns with Microsoft’s broader security commitments and ensures that connectivity is treated as a first-class platform capability within Fabric, solely managed by Microsoft.A clear connector lifecycle for Power BI’s data connectorsTo help customers understand why we are strengthening our connector supply chain and bringing more connectors in-house, we want to provide clear visibility into the conne
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Features, Compliance, Security

Auto-Generated Rubric Evaluators: Building Context-Aware Evaluators for AI Agents

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:00:00 Z

Authors: Shuo Qiu, Sydney Lister, Ilya Matiach, Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Salma Elshafey, José Santos, Vivek Bhadauria, Morteza Ziyadi, April Kwong Why Your Agent Needs a Task-Specific Evaluator Picture ...
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Detection and automation, reimagined

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl How analytics rules, playbooks, workbooks, and hunting evolve in Defender—and why the new toolbelt makes detection engineerin...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Simplify Schema Changes in Fabric Data Warehouse with ALTER COLUMN

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:44:03 Z

As your data warehouse evolves with changing business needs, so does your schema. Whether you're onboarding new data sources, updating business logic, or scaling analytics models, schema updates—such as increasing column length or adjusting numeric precision are a normal part of operating a modern analytical warehouse. Now, even minor schema changes often require rebuilding tables and coordinating downstream deployments. A change as small as expanding a VARCHAR column can turn into a full operational effort impacting ingestion pipelines, CI/CD deployments, and reporting dependencies. Now, we’re introducing support for ALTER TABLE … ALTER COLUMN in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview), enabling supported schema changes directly on existing warehouse tables using familiar T‑SQL syntax. Evolve your schema without rewriting data With ALTER COLUMN support in Fabric Data Warehouse, you can now make supported changes to column definitions without requiring full table rebuilds or rewriting underlying Parquet data files. Capabilities: Expand column sizes as business requirements grow. Adjust numeric precision to reflect evolving calculations. Modify supported data types in place. Update schemas without breaking deployment pipelines. Maintain compatibility with downstream queries and reports. All while continuing to use the same, familiar T‑SQL experience. Why this matters for analytics teams Schema evolution is one of the most disruptive operational tasks in analytical environments. Traditionally in Fabric Data Warehouse, making even minor structural changes to warehouse tables often involves: Creating replacement tables. Copying existing data using CTAS. Reconfiguring ingestion pipelines. Updating dependent reports or semantic models. These workflows introduce deployment delays and increase t
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Controlling Tool Access with APIM MCP Gateway

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:44:00 Z

If you've started working with MCP servers in GitHub Copilot, Claude, or any other agent host in an enterprise environment, you've probably hit a similar problem. You want to give your developers acc...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Categories:

Azure Migrate – GitHub Copilot Modernization integration for at scale code assessments

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:00:18 Z

Azure Migrate now integrates with GitHub Copilot Modernization (public preview) to deliver at scale code insights. This capability brings together Azure Migrate’s portfolio-level discovery and assessment with GitHub Copilot’s context-aware code analysis.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Migrate, Categories: Management

Azure Databricks native read access to Microsoft OneLake

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:00:18 Z

Azure Databricks now supports native read access to data stored in Microsoft OneLake through Unity Catalog. This capability is generally available. Customers can query and analyze data directly in OneLake without moving or copying data, enabling faster ac
Update Type: GA, Services: Databricks, Categories: Features

Azure Databricks natively storing data in Microsoft OneLake

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:00:18 Z

Azure Databricks can now natively write managed Delta tables to Microsoft OneLake. This capability enables customers to use OneLake as a unified storage layer for Azure Databricks workloads without managing separate storage accounts. By storing data direc
Update Type: Preview, Services: Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Features

ICMP Support for Azure StandardV2 NAT Gateway

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:44:00 Z

Our customers, across all industries, depend on consistent outbound connectivity and observability to operate and troubleshoot their cloud workloads at scale. As Azure environments grow in size and c...
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ServiceNow Zero-Copy Querying of Enterprise Data in Microsoft OneLake

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z

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. With the new connector, customers can access their enterprise data stored in OneLake without moving or copying it.ServiceNow OneLake connectorServiceNow introduced a new OneLake connector that enables organisations to access data in Microsoft OneLake directly from ServiceNow—bringing governed, enterprise data into workflows, analytics, and AI-powered experiences. This allows teams to act on the same governed data foundation used across Fabric.This unlocks three key advantages:• Less data movement, lower complexity: Query data in place instead of building and maintaining pipelines.• Consistent, governed access to enterprise data: ServiceNow experiences can be powered by the same trusted data estate used across analytics, and AI workloads in Fabric.• Richer workflow context: Power automations and AI experiences with full enterprise data context, not isolated operational data.Bringing analytical context into operational scenariosThis integration enables ServiceNow teams to bring real-time analytical context directly into operational workflows—without copying data. By integrating with OneLake, customers can query data directly from ServiceNow to power use cases such as:• Incident and service operations: Enrich incidents with historical trends, telemetry, asset health, and business-impact signals from OneLake so teams can prioritize and resolve issues faster.• Field service and asset management: Provide technicians with maintenance history, IoT signals, inventory availability, and warranty context in workflow.• Supply chain and logistics: Surface
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Services, Management

ICMP Support for Azure Standard V2 NAT Gateway

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:30:04 Z

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
Update Type: GA, Services: NAT Gateway, Categories: Features, Services

Anatomy of the change

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl Incidents, alerts, correlation, and data—what actually changes with the new platform, and why it works in your favor. When ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

Simplify Spark failure diagnosis in Fabric

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

An AI-powered skill that turns Spark troubleshooting from a multi-tab investigation into a single natural-language command.
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Introducing New Additions to Microsoft Sentinel Normalization and ASIM

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:00:00 Z

TL;DR: New ASIM parsers for Azure Firewall, Key Vault, AWS CloudTrail (EC2, S3, IAM), and 10+ third-party products. Two new schemas — Asset Entities and AI Agent Events. Plus changelogs on GitHub a...
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How to Score a User Simulator: Introducing USR-8

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:00 Z

Authors: José Santos, Shuo Qiu, Morteza Ziyadi User simulators have become a standard part of the agent-building toolkit: cheaper than real-user pilots, faster than scripted dialogues, and the only...
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Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:58:46 Z

Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention Picture the first few hours after a serious data incident. A production application is down. Security teams are still trying to understand what happened. Application owners need to know which recovery points are usable, which ones are protected from tampering, and […] The post Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Cosmos DB, Azure Backup, Categories: Security

Introducing GitHub Pre-Purchase Plans: A Simpler Way to Plan Your GitHub Spend

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:58:00 Z

As AI-powered development scales, more of what organizations pay for on GitHub is shifting from fixed per-seat pricing to usage-based billing. GitHub Copilot, Actions, Codespaces, AI Credits: spend n...
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Build an Automated SLA Risk Agent with Routines in Microsoft Foundry

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 Z

Routines in Microsoft Foundry turn agents into scheduled, repeatable processes. This blog shows how to build a grounded SLA risk agent using Foundry IQ, and run it daily to automatically identify and...
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Spark History Server performance improvement: Snapshot-based loading

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:00:00 Z

As Spark workloads scale in size and complexity, fast access to Spark application execution metrics and logs is essential for debugging, performance analysis, and operational confidence. The Spark History Server is a key part of that workflow — but for large workloads, loading times have been a significant pain point.With this release, we’ve introduced a new snapshot-based approach that significantly improves Spark History Server loading performance in Microsoft Fabric.The challengePreviously, the Spark History Server had to fully parse and render the entire application event log before the UI could load. For large-scale enterprise workloads — applications with hundreds of thousands of tasks, event logs exceeding 10 GB, or long-running Spark Streaming jobs — this could take up to an hour, or in some cases, fail to load entirely.What’s newThe Spark History Server now uses a snapshot-based approach to load execution metrics and logs incrementally from the backend, rather than processing the full event log upfront. Users can see the first batch of data quickly, then load additional details on demand — resulting in a much-improved experience.This means applications that previously took up to an hour to load now render in seconds or minutes, unblocking enterprise customers running complex batch jobs and streaming pipelines at scale.Figure: Performance comparison — Improved Spark History Server (left) vs. original (right).Expanded Spark Streaming supportWe’ve also removed the restriction that prevented users from enabling the spark.eventLog.compress and spark.eventLog.rolling.enabled properties. Previously, enabling these configurations would cause the Spark History Server to fail to render. Users can now enable event log compression and rolling for Spark Streaming and other long-running applications, and the History Server will continue to render properly.Learn moreThese improvements make the Spark History Server faster, more scalable, and more reliable for workloads of
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Azure Arc Server May 2026 Forum

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:47:00 Z

Please find the recording for the monthly Azure Arc Server Forum on YouTube! During the May 2026 Azure Arc Server Forum, we discussed: Private Preview of Windows Server 2016 Extended Security U...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Arc, Categories: Security

New project templates and template gallery for Azure Functions in VS Code

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:00:15 Z

The Azure Functions extension for VS Code now provides a redesigned Create New Project experience in public preview, featuring a rich, visual template gallery that replaces the multi-step Quick Pick wizard with a searchable, filterable view of project tem
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Stay informed about Microsoft Fabric service issues

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:00:00 Z

Fabric uses several message types to communicate service issues, depending on how an issue is detected and where the information is surfaced.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Services