Azure Updates - Latest from Azure Charts

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
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Categories:

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

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.
Update Type: GA, Services: Cosmos DB, 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...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

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

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

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

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...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Registry, Categories:

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

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.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Categories:

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

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

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

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...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

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...
Update Type: GA, Services: , Categories:

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

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.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

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
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

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 ...
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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...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Key Vault, Azure Firewall, Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

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

General Availability: Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:33:00 Z

We are excited to announce the General Availability of Simple log alerts in Azure Monitor! This feature is designed to provide a simplified and more intuitive experience for monitoring and alerting, ...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Log Analytics Summary Rules experience

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:15:28 Z

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

Announcing Public Preview: Agent Identities Asset Connector for Microsoft Sentinel

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z

As organizations accelerate adoption of AI agents across Microsoft 365 and enterprise environments, security teams face a fundamental shift: Agents are becoming first-class identities and securing ...
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Copy job for SAP with ABAP Add-On in Microsoft Fabric

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z

SAP systems sit at the center of many enterprises’ core business operations, powering processes across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, and HR. That makes SAP data some of the most business-critical data in the enterprise. As organizations modernize their analytics and AI platforms, bringing SAP data together with the rest of the enterprise data estate has become increasingly important.But moving SAP data at enterprise scale has historically been difficult. SAP landscapes are complex, data volumes are large, and extraction architectures often require specialized frameworks, custom code, and additional operational layers. For many organizations, this creates friction between where their most important operational data lives and where they want to analyze, enrich, and activate it.We are delivering the next step of our SAP roadmap: Copy job for SAP with ABAP Add-On in Microsoft, this new capability complements offerings like:SAP Business Data Cloud Connect was announced in SAP and Microsoft accelerate business insights and AI innovation with SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric and will be available over the coming months). It will enable bi-directional zero-copy sharing between SAP Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric without the need for data movement.Mirroring via SAP Datasphere, a turnkey data replication capability providing scalable near real-time data movement from SAP sources into Fabric OneLake (Generally Available). To learn more, refer to the Fabric mirroring documentation.Now, organizations can extract large volumes of SAP data through Copy job, reduce the need for external extraction frameworks, and build a scalable path from initial ingestion to ongoing incremental updates.Copy job provides a configuration driven experience for moving data across clouds, applications and on-premises systems – designed to support high-scale, multi-cloud data movement for petabyte-scale ingestion scenarios. Copy job helps
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Transform your security operation with a unified experience in Defender

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Co-authored with Lizet Pena, Caroline Mutua, Alvin Kua and Marco Sudahl Security operations teams today are being asked to do more than ever: respond faster, manage increasing data volumes, reduce ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories: Security

Unlocking Microsoft OneLake as the data foundation for Azure Databricks customers

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z

As organizations scale their data and AI investments, many are adopting a multi-platform approach so teams can use the tools that best fit each project. But this flexibility comes at a cost: duplicated data, fragmented governance, and complex data movement across systems.The next phase of data platforms isn’t just about connecting systems; it’s about sharing a common data foundation and, increasingly, a context foundation. Instead of aligning on a single engine, organizations can align on a single copy of data while enabling teams to use the tools they use.With today’s updates, Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks take a major step forward, enabling you to use Microsoft OneLake as a shared data layer that both platforms can read and store in natively. This means Azure Databricks customers can use OneLake as their native storage option, ensuring data lives in one place with a single copy, but can be accessed in either platform and engine.Expanding Azure Databricks interoperability with bi-directional OneLake access, now availableWith these updates, Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric enable true bi-directional interoperability through OneLake. Customers can now read and store the same data from either platform without duplication or complex pipelines.Now in beta: Azure Databricks can store Unity Catalog managed tables natively in OneLakeNow generally available: Azure Databricks can read data stored in OneLakeWith support for reading and storing directly to OneLake, Azure Databricks customers can now use OneLake as a native storage layer for their Delta tables without managing separate storage systems. This lets you store data in OneLake while using either Fabric or Azure Databricks for each project.Because there is a single copy of data, changes made in one environment are immediately reflected in the other. This eliminates the need for data movement, reduces duplication, and simplifies how organizations manage and govern their data estate.Learn more about these i
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Extending interoperability: Azure Databricks can now store Unity Catalog managed tables directly in OneLake

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z

As organizations scale their data and AI investments, they increasingly adopt a multi-platform approach, enabling teams to use the tools that best fit their needs. The challenge has been enabling both platforms to work from a single copy of data without duplicating storage or building complex pipelines.With today's updates, Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric take a major step toward true bi-directional interoperability through OneLake. Reading data across platforms is already available: Onelake catalog federation (now generally available) lets Azure Databricks query OneLake data directly, and Mirrored Azure Databricks Catalog makes Unity Catalog tables stored in ADLS Gen2 accessible in Fabric. Now, we are taking this a step further — Azure Databricks can store Unity Catalog managed tables directly in OneLake:OneLake external location support for Unity Catalog (Beta): Azure Databricks can now store Unity Catalog managed tables directly in OneLake. Expanding your Azure storage options alongside ADLS Gen2, your workloads can seamlessly target OneLake as an additional foundational storage layer for Unity Catalog. Publish to Fabric (Preview): A streamlined workflow to create Mirrored Azure Databricks Catalog items directly from Azure Databricks Catalog Explorer. This works for Unity Catalog tables regardless of where they're stored, whether in OneLake or in ADLS Gen2. Once published, tables are immediately queryable across all Fabric workloads.Why this mattersWith support for both reading and storing directly in OneLake, Azure Databricks customers can now use OneLake as a native storage layer for their Delta tables without managing separate storage systems. This provides flexibility to store data in OneLake while using preferred tools in either Microsoft Fabric or Azure Databricks for each project. Because these remain fully managed Unity Catalog tables, all existing governance and optimization capabilities extend to data stored in OneLake.Because there is a sing
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Announcing General Availability of the Azure Cosmos DB Built-in Connector for Logic Apps Standard

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:33:42 Z

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Cosmos DB built-in connector for Azure Logic Apps Standard. This connector gives you a native, high-performance way to integrate Azure Cosmos DB into your Standard logic app workflows, with better throughput, lower latency, and richer functionality than the managed connector. That includes real-time change […] The post Announcing General Availability of the Azure Cosmos DB Built-in Connector for Logic Apps Standard appeared first on Azure Cosmos DB Blog.
Update Type: GA, Services: Logic Apps, Cosmos DB, Categories:

A Guided Tour of the New Microsoft Foundry Labs

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:41:00 Z

There's a moment every developer chases — the first time you take something genuinely at the edge of what's possible and watch it run on your screen, against your problem. Microsoft Foundry Labs exis...
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Intelligent sampling in Microsoft Foundry: the science behind selecting better production traces

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Learn how to use data generation in Microsoft Foundry to turn production agent traces into evaluation and fine-tuning datasets.
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Benchmarks in Microsoft Foundry (preview): Standardized model and agent quality checks

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z

Introduction Benchmarks in Microsoft Foundry (preview) make that kind of measurement a first-class part of the development workflow. You can run well-known open-source benchmarks against any model ...
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Bringing Enterprise File Data to Users with Azure NetApp Files, Microsoft Foundry, and M365 Copilot

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:37:00 Z

This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on extending AI to enterprise file data, showing how the knowledge pipeline is surfaced through enterprise AI agents and user experiences including Microsoft 365 Cop...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Azure NetApp Files, Categories:

From Enterprise File Storage to an AI-Ready Data Foundation using Azure NetApp Files and OneLake

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:37:00 Z

This 3-part series shows how to extend AI to enterprise file data – without migration – by combining Azure NetApp Files, OneLake, and a RAG-based architecture that surfaces grounded insights through ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Azure Storage, Azure NetApp Files, Categories:

From File Data to AI-Powered Knowledge Pipelines using Azure NetApp Files object REST API

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:37:00 Z

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on extending AI to enterprise file data hosted on Azure NetApp Files, building on the data foundation to create a knowledge pipeline that makes enterprise file data ...
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Deploy Anyscale on Azure with Terraform: a step-by-step guide

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 Z

Deploy Anyscale on Azure end-to-end with Terraform, AKS managed Gateway API, Istio-based app routing, and the AzAPI provider for newly released services.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Kubernetes Service, Categories: Services

How to Measure Token Impact of MCP Tool Invocation in Microsoft Foundry

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z

Your MCP-enabled agent just ran, and the token counts don't add up. The API says 773 tokens. The portal trace shows 581/141. The trajectory view displays something else entirely. Before you file a bu...
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ArchAngel: Skilling the next developer generation for the Agentic transformation.

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:02:00 Z

AI is transforming the SDLC at speed but there's a quieter question following close behind. If the code is being written for your junior developers, when do they learn the skills to become senior...
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A Better Way to View Logs in Kudu for Azure App Service on Linux

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 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 unexpected application behavior, having the right log view can make troubleshooting much easier.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

June Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:33:15 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 June Patches for Azure DevOps Server appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
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Right-sizing Azure Savings Plans, one hour at a time

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:21:00 Z

Most of us have, at some point, sized a commitment the same way we order food for a team offsite: estimate, round up, and hope nobody complains. It works for pizza. It is a less robust strategy for a...
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Av2-series, F-series, Fs-series, Fsv2-series, G-series, Gs-series, and Lsv2-series Virtual Machines for Azure Batch pools

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:00:41 Z

Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on November 15, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that rely on them:Av2-seriesF-series, Fs-series, Fsv2-seriesG-series, Gs-seriesLsv2-seriesAfter this date:New Batch pools using these VM serie
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Batch, Categories: Retirements

D-series, Ds-series, Dv2-series, Dsv2-series, and Ls-series Virtual Machines for Azure Batch pools

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:00:41 Z

Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on May 1, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that rely on them:D-series, Ds-seriesDv2-series, Dsv2-seriesLs-seriesAfter this date:New Batch pools using these VM series cannot be createdExisting
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Batch, Categories: Retirements

GPv1 and Legacy Blob storage account creation

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:00:41 Z

As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and deliver enhanced performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, we are announcing the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts. This includes legacy blob stor
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Azure Storage, Categories: Retirements

A new way to create visuals on Real-Time Dashboards –

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:00:00 Z

Discover a new way to build visuals in Real-Time Dashboards. The redesigned tile editing experience in Real-Time Dashboards brings AI-assisted authoring, a larger preview area, and more flexible workflows to help you create and refine dashboard visuals faster.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

SQL MCP Server

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:45:02 Z

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

Azure Monitor SLIs now Generally Available

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:18:00 Z

Azure Monitor SLIs are now generally available Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in Azure Monitor are now generally available. Teams can now measure reliability ba...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Azure Monitor Metrics Export Generally Available

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:17:00 Z

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Export using data collection rules (DCRs). A scalable, flexible way to continuously export platform metrics with dim...
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Time Series Visualization in Real-Time Dashboard

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z

Time series analysis is at the heart of understanding how data behaves over time. Whether you’re tracking sensor readings, monitoring system performance, or analyzing business trends, the ability to visualize and explore time-based data is essential for making informed decisions.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule version 1 for Azure VMSS (aka Inbound NAT Pools)

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:15:07 Z

Update to our previous communication: We previously announced the retirement of all Inbound NAT rules version 1 resources, which included both single-VM NAT rules and NAT pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets. We have narrowed the scope of this retirement
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Load Balancer, Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, Categories: Services, Retirements

Live refresh for Real-Time Dashboards

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Real-Time Dashboards in Microsoft Fabric help you monitor live data and react to changes as they happen. Today, we're announcing a new feature that automatically refreshes your dashboard visuals when new data is ingested into the dashboard’s underlying data sources.
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:54:32 Z

Over the last few years, we’ve encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub, where the newest AI-powered and agentic development experiences land first. Migrating isn’t equally simple for everyone. A move to GitHub can range from straightforward to a multi-year program, depending on an organization’s size, customizations, compliance requirements, tooling, and […] The post Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories: Compliance, Security

Beyond markdown: Shareable sites with Rayfin

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:40:40 Z

If you work alongside AI tools, your screen is probably full of markdown files. They’re fast to write, easy for an agent to read, and great for keeping a record. Then you try to share one.That’s where the format breaks. You paste it into a chat and the formatting collapses. You email the file and someone replies asking if it’s the latest version. You convert it to a deck and spend an hour fixing layout. By the time three people have weighed in, four copies are floating around with no clear source of truth.A new sharing pattern is emergingOutside the enterprise, a different pattern is catching on. Instead of sending a doc, people describe what they want and an agent ships a small hosted site. The recipient gets a URL. The URL stays stable. Updates show up the next time someone opens it. No re-sharing, no version sprawl, no file attachments.It’s a better fit for how AI-era work actually moves. Once content is dynamic and partially generated, keeping it in a static file creates friction every time you update it.Why the consumer version doesn’t fit at workThe pattern works at home. At work, it usually doesn’t. Internal content needs identity. It needs access controls. It needs an audit trail. The underlying data needs to stay inside the organization’s data estate. A hosted site that lives in some third-party tenant, with its own auth and its own database, is exactly the kind of thing security teams have spent years trying to consolidate.That’s the gap Rayfin closes.What Rayfin changesRayfin is a new open-source SDK and CLI that lets you (or a coding agent working on your behalf) define an application backend in code and deploy it to Microsoft Fabric. The deployed site runs as a first-class Fabric item and inherits the platform’s identity, access policies, governance, and compliance.For the markdown-to-site workflow, that translates to a few practical things:One URL per piece of content, and that URL stays the same as you iterate.Access is governed by the same Fabric con
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Compliance, Security

What to Do When You Hit Capacity in Azure Databricks: Engage, Mitigate, Plan!

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:41:00 Z

Microsoft's Cloud Architects: Paul Singh PaulSingh, Eduardo Dos Santos eduardomdossantos, Chris Walk cwalk, Peter Lo PeterLo, Tim Orentlikher, Ajmal Hossain ajmalhossain, Chris Haynes Chris_H...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Categories:

Dynamic Connection Properties in Azure Logic Apps Standard

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:20:00 Z

Switching Built-in Connections at Runtime The Problem Imagine your organization has a single Logic App workflow used by multiple teams. Each team has its own SFTP server, database, or service bus...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

Debug App Startup Faster on Azure App Service for Linux with Startup Logs

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:34:00 Z

When an app fails to start on Azure App Service for Linux, one of the first things you need is visibility into what happened during startup. This can include container initialization, runtime setup, ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

Now in Foundry: Command A+ (W4A4), Chandra OCR 2, and GLM-OCR

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:59:00 Z

We are seeing two distinct trends this week. The first is around how low-bit quantization has developed to the point where large reasoning models can fit on a single accelerator with less quality los...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Migrating Azure Data Factory pipelines to Fabric directly from your Fabric workspace

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:00:00 Z

Migrating Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines to Fabric has traditionally started in the ADF portal—running assessments and then switching to Fabric to complete the process. This approach continues to support scenarios where upfront readiness insights are important.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Data Factory, Categories:

Microsoft Entra server principals on Azure SQL Database

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:45:26 Z

Microsoft Entra server principals (logins) for Azure SQL Database is now generally available. You can now use CREATE LOGIN ... FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER in the virtual master database, bringing parity with SQL logins for your Microsoft Entra identities.With
Update Type: GA, Services: SQL Database, Categories:

Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:00:06 Z

As of March 31, 2026, new Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL accounts can no longer enable Azure Synapse Link. Existing customers will remain fully supported until March 31, 2029, when Azure Synapse Link will reach end of life.We encourage all customers to begin migra
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Databricks, Synapse Analytics, Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric, Cosmos DB, Categories: Services, Retirements

Transitioning from Azure Language Features to Foundry Models

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:43:00 Z

Azure AI Language in Foundry Tools will begin deprecating eight features: Key Phrase Extraction, Entity Linking, Sentiment Analysis & Opinion Mining, Summarization (document & conversation), Conver...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features

PUBLIC PREVIEW - Azure Monitor - Collect Azure Resource Platform Logs at Scale with DCRs

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:31:00 Z

PUBLIC PREVIEW - Azure Monitor - Collect Azure Resource Platform Logs at Scale with DCRs. How DCR-based platform logs simplify the telemetry collection for organizations managing 1,000+ resources. ...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

Azure VPN Client for Linux (Preview) will be retired on August 31, 2026

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:15:16 Z

The Azure VPN Client for Linux (Preview) has remained in public preview and does not have a path to general availability (GA). As part of our ongoing efforts to align Azure networking services with current security and reliability standards, this preview
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: VPN Gateway, Virtual WAN, Categories: Security, Retirements

Cross-workspace role management in the OneLake catalog

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

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

Productize, observe, version, and automate MCP servers in Azure API Management

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:18:00 Z

Introduction As organizations move from AI-assisted applications to agentic workflows, MCP servers are becoming a critical integration layer between agents, tools, APIs, data sources, and enterpris...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Categories: Management

How ARM Tracks Work That Takes Hours

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:22:00 Z

By Arav Goyal, Joy Shah, Michael Cheng, Manik Sikka, Jenny Hunter, Johnson Shi Introduction When a user creates, updates, or deletes a resource in Azure, the request flows through Azure Resou...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

ACI Sandboxes: A Glimpse into the Future of Agentic Compute

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:56:00 Z

Emerging Technology Preview We are delighted to share innovation in the world of AI. At Build, we demonstrated several innovations that showcase where Azure Container Instances (ACI) is heading and...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Instances, Categories:

Debug App Startup Faster on Azure App Service for Linux with Startup Logs

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 Z

When an app fails to start on Azure App Service for Linux, one of the first things you need is visibility into what happened during startup. This can include container initialization, runtime setup, startup command execution, application output, and warmup probe results.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

App Routing Gateway API is GA: Here's a Demo

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 Z

App Routing's Gateway API implementation is now GA, with built-in Azure DNS and Azure Key Vault TLS integration plus JSON access logs on gateway proxies.
Update Type: GA, Services: Kubernetes Service, Azure Key Vault, Azure DNS, Categories:

Agent mode for GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:45:10 Z

You can now use Agent mode for GitHub Copilot in SSMS to work with your database: investigating performance problems, tuning queries, reviewing maintenance and configuration, identifying security concerns, troubleshooting errors, and assisting with operat
Update Type: Preview, Services: , Categories: Features, Management

Unlocking the Human Telemetry Layer for Safer Industrial Operations

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:08:00 Z

What if we could track human health & safety conditions as precisely as we do with machines, and take immediate actions to protect our greatest asset, our people? Many industrial organizations still ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: , Categories:

Power-up in SSMS 22.7: Schema compare and SQL formatting

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:00:00 Z

With SSMS 22.7, we're expanding that foundation with two capabilities that database professionals have been asking for in SSMS: graphical schema compare and a built-in SQL formatter. In addition to those key features, we're continuing to expand the SQL projects support in the Database DevOps (Preview) with SQLCMD variable support in the publish dialog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Features

Ginkgo Bioworks and Microsoft Discovery: Bringing agentic AI to biological discovery

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:00:00 Z

Introduction Biological discovery is inherently iterative and non-linear. Progress comes through cycles of hypothesis, experimentation, refinement, and review across data, tools, and teams. At Micr...
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PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:45:07 Z

PostgreSQL Hub for Azure Developers brings together key AI and application development resources for PostgreSQL on Azure. It includes curated sample apps and solution accelerators, tutorials, and structured learning pathways to help you build everything f
Update Type: GA, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Categories: Features

Introducing Durable Functions in PostgreSQL

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:28:00 Z

By Abe Omorogbe, Senior PM | Pino De Candia, Principal Software Engineer | TJ Green, Principal Software Engineer Postgres will happily store your data, run your queries, and scale with you for yea...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Functions, Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Online Meeting Effectiveness Index (OMEI)

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:26:00 Z

Samidha Shikhare*, Tim Malueg*, Shreya Goel*, and Charlie Goldenberg* Department of Business Analytics, Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara, California 95053, Un...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:12:40 Z

Over the last several years, we have encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub to take advantage of the latest AI powered and agentic development experiences that GitHub is delivering. At the same time, we recognize that migrating repositories to GitHub can vary significantly in complexity depending on an organization’s size, […] The post Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

Streaming and Batch Data Architectures with Microsoft Fabric to Azure Databricks

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:34:00 Z

Note: This article describes a solution idea. Your cloud architect can use this guidance to help visualize the major components for a typical implementation. Use this article as a starting poin...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Microsoft Fabric to Azure Databricks: Another Better Together Story!

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:34:00 Z

Author's: Oscar Alvarado oscaralvarado and Rafia Aqil Rafia_Aqil Note: This article describes a solution idea. Your cloud architect can use this guidance to help visualize the major compon...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Batch & Streaming Architecture Designs: Another Better Together Story!

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:34:00 Z

Announcing the Path to Production for Agents Webinar Series

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:58:00 Z

Many organizations have made significant progress exploring AI—building pilots, prototypes, and proofs of concept. Yet a common challenge remains: how do you move from promising experiments to produc...
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Claude Fable 5 available today in Microsoft Foundry: Powering the next era of autonomous agents

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest Frontier model, available today in Microsoft Foundry, powering agents in GitHub Copilot and Foundry Agent Service.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Update: Minimum billable object size for cooler storage tiers

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:45:02 Z

We are pausing the introduction of a minimum billable object size for the cool, cold, and archive access tiers. As a result, billing behavior will not change on July 1, 2026, for either new or existing storage accounts. We will provide an update on our r
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Data Lake Storage, Azure Storage, Categories: Pricing & Offerings

What's new in Azure App Service at #MSBuild 2026

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:30:00 Z

At Microsoft Build 2026, Azure App Service introduced a powerful set of updates designed to help organizations accelerate their journey into AI, without increasing complexity or cost. These innovatio...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories:

Smaller updates, faster downloads with delta updates in Azure Device Update for IoT Hub

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:27:00 Z

Keeping IoT fleets secure and up to date shouldn't mean shipping the full software image to every device, every time. With delta updates in Azure Device Update for IoT Hub, fleet operators can send o...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: IoT Hub, Categories:

Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - June 2026

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:01:00 Z

In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month June 2026's Ace Aviator: Florian De Langhe LinkedIn: https://ww...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Categories:

Azure NC RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition v6 Series Virtual Machines

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:15:14 Z

Azure NCv6-series virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available in the Azure Southeast Asia and West US 2 regions. NCv6 VMs are powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition graphics processing units (GPUs) with each GPU featuring 96 GB of
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Categories: Features

Premium SSD v2 disks now support non-zonal Azure Virtual Machines

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:00:23 Z

Azure Premium SSD v2 disks now support non-zonal, single-instance Azure virtual machines in select Azure regions with Availability Zones (AZs). Customers can now deploy Premium SSD v2 with non-zonal virtual machines without selecting an Availability Zone.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Managed Disks, Categories: Features

Microsoft Foundry agent security capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Cloud are transitioning to a Microsoft Agent 365 license

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:15:43 Z

Starting July 1, 2026, Microsoft Foundry agent security capabilities previously available through Microsoft Defender for Cloud will transition to a Microsoft Agent 365 license. Agent protection in Defender will be powered by Agent 365 observability logs a
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Defender for Cloud, Categories: Features, Security, Pricing & Offerings

Azure Site Recovery support for Linux Azure VMs with NVMe disk controllers.

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:15:43 Z

Azure Site Recovery now supports replication and disaster recovery for Linux Azure Virtual Machines running on NVMe-enabled Generation 2 VM families, such as the Da/Ea/Fa v6-series and Ebsv5/Ebdsv5 in the Azure-to-Azure scenario. This support is limited t
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Management

Maintenance control for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - reschedule, apply on demand, view and download

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:15:43 Z

Enhanced maintenance control capabilities are now generally available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. These new capabilities give you greater visibility and flexibility in managing platform maintenance events, helping reduce disruption
Update Type: GA, Services: Database for PostgreSQL, Categories:

Driving Stop-and-Go Business Processes to Closure with Foundry Hosted Agents

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:30:00 Z

Why This Matters Your AI agent just forgot everything. Again. If you've built agents that need to track work across days or weeks—not just single conversations—you've hit this wall: the agent loo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Azure Managed Redis now supports Entra ID based RBAC for data management

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:15:40 Z

With role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Managed Redis data access, you can precisely control who can read, write, or administer your Redis data using Microsoft Entra ID—without relying on shared keys. Built on top of Redis Access Control Lists (AC
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Entra ID, Managed Redis, Categories: Features, Management

Enterprise Live Migrations: Moving from Azure DevOps Repo to GitHub with minimal disruption

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:13:26 Z

Over the last several years, we’ve encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub to take advantage of the latest AI-powered and agentic development experiences. For many enterprise teams, however, migrating at scale comes with real constraints. Traditional approaches can require extended downtime – sometimes days – which isn’t acceptable for teams […] The post Enterprise Live Migrations: Moving from Azure DevOps Repo to GitHub with minimal disruption appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure DevOps, Categories:

Designing for High Availability: The Operational Reference for Running a Geo-Replicated ACR

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:04:00 Z

By Johnson Shi, Zoey (Zhuyu) Li, Huangli Wu Introduction Three of the most common questions we hear from enterprise teams running geo-replicated Azure Container Registries (ACR) are: "How do ...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Container Registry, Categories:

AI-Powered Power BI reporting: From design to deployment with agent skills

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Power BI report authoring skills is a collection of multiple skills that enables AI agents to automate report creation, from designing pages to publishing to Fabric. Now available through the Power BI authoring plugin in Skills for Fabric —a first-party catalog of agent skills for Microsoft Fabric optimized for GitHub Copilot CLI—this capability allows agents to author reports through natural language, write schema-correct PBIR files, reload Power BI Desktop, capture screenshots, and iteratively refine reports for a seamless, end-to-end authoring experience.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

GA of NSP for Azure Service Bus & NSP now available in Azure Gov. Regions

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:01:00 Z

TL; DR Network Security Perimeter (NSP) support for Azure Service Bus is now Generally Available. With this, you can now place your Service Bus namespace inside a central security boundary and appl...
Update Type: GA, Services: Service Bus, Categories: Security

Network security perimeter for Azure Service Bus & also now available in Azure Gov. Regions

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:01:00 Z

TL; DR Network security perimeter support for Azure Service Bus is now Generally Available. With this, you can now place your Service Bus namespace inside a central security boundary and apply peri...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Service Bus, Categories:

Now in preview: built-in MCP for Azure App Service

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:09:00 Z

At Build 2026 last week, we announced the public preview of built-in MCP for Azure App Service. It does one thing, and it does it with almost no effort on your part: it turns a REST API you already h...
Update Type: Preview, Services: App Service, Categories:

SharePoint and OneDrive Shortcuts in OneLake

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:18:35 Z

For most enterprises, the largest and fastest-growing repository of business-critical information is SharePoint and OneDrive. Contracts, financial models, project plans, meeting notes, presentations, and compliance documentation accumulate across every team and department, rich with context that rarely makes it into an analytics workflow.This content has traditionally been invisible to data platforms. Bringing it into a data lake meant building pipelines, scheduling exports, managing duplicates, and reconciling governance across two separate systems. The result: valuable knowledge stayed locked in productivity tools while analytics teams worked with an incomplete picture.Now, SharePoint and OneDrive Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric OneLake is now generally available. With this capability, organizations can now surface this data directly inside OneLake, without requiring traditional data movement pipelines in many common scenarios. Files stay exactly where they are in SharePoint or OneDrive, and Fabric workloads see them as a native part of the data lake.This is more than a connectivity feature. It is the bridge between the world where work happens and the world where data is analyzed. Sales forecasts stored in Excel can be joined with CRM transactions. Legal documents can be indexed and grounded in AI agents. Financial trackers can feed Power BI reports the moment they are updated. This helps reduce the boundary between collaboration content and enterprise analytics workflows.Customer Use CasesOrganizations across industries are already finding practical, high-value ways to connect their Microsoft 365 content with Fabric analytics and AI. Below are example scenarios that illustrate potential use cases. Data Lake Unification Without MigrationMany organizations maintain structured data in their Lakehouse alongside a parallel, untouched archive of unstructured content in SharePoint. Shortcuts eliminate the need to choose between the two. Data engineering teams can no
Update Type: GA, Services: Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Compliance

Designing Reliable Data Platforms: Centralized Failure Logging Framework with Azure Monitor

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:03:00 Z

Introduction Modern data platforms are no longer just about moving and transforming data. In production, what really matters is reliability — and how quickly you can understand and react when somet...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories:

The Worm in the Supply Chain: How Defender for Endpoint and Sentinel for SAP BTP Caught Shai-Hulud

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:00 Z

On 29 April 2026, malicious versions of multiple SAP ecosystem npm packages were briefly published, creating a supply-chain exposure for SAP Cloud Application Programming (CAP) development environmen...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Sentinel, Categories:

App Service Build 2026 Updates

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 Z

Build 2026 is here, and Azure App Service is showing up with a packed lineup of updates. This post is your one-stop rollup of what’s new: a brand-new Easy AI experience that turns your web apps into agent-ready endpoints, the general availability of Isolated v4 on ASEv3, continued progress on App Service Managed Instance, and a wave of platform and CLI improvements built for the agent era.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: App Service, Categories: Services

Ingestion Volume Change dashboard in Metrics Usage Insights

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:45:48 Z

Metrics Usage Insights now includes an Ingestion Volume Change dashboard to help you compare ingestion volume over time. Quickly detect spikes or drops in time series counts and event ingestion rates, enabling faster investigation of cost changes and more
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Management

Private Preview: Guest RDMA on Azure Boost

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:30:12 Z

Guest RDMA is now in preview on Azure, starting in the UK South region, bringing high-throughput, ultra-low latency networking directly into guest VMs within the same region. By using Azure Boost to enable RDMA in the guest OS, applications can bypass the
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, Categories: Features

Enhancements to Device Status API & Logged-In User Email in Endpoint DLP

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:34:00 Z

1. The Real‑World Problem Endpoint DLP analyst Faced (What Was Missing Earlier) Before the introduction of the Device Status API enhancements and logged‑in user visibility, Endpoint DLP teams consi...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Purview, Categories:

Extend Microsoft Purview data protection to AWS Bedrock agents for cross-cloud AI governance

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:32:00 Z

Organizations are moving fast with AI, and many of those AI workloads are not staying in one cloud. A team might use Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview for governance and in addition to Microsoft Fo...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Purview, Categories:

A Multi-Region Microsoft Foundry Pattern for Enterprise Private Networking

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:30:00 Z

Enterprise AI projects do not move to production on model quality alone. They move when architecture, networking, observability, and evaluation all work together in a way that fits existing enterpris...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Regional Endpoints for Azure Container Registry Geo-Replication - Now in Public Preview

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:12:00 Z

By Johnson Shi, Zoey (Zhuyu) Li, Huangli Wu What's new Regional endpoints for geo-replicated Azure Container Registries are now in public preview. See the feature's official MS Learn documentatio...
Update Type: Preview, Services: Container Registry, Categories:

Pod CIDR Expansion Generally Available and IP Address Planning on Azure CNI Overlay

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:14:00 Z

In networking with Azure CNI Overlay, the cluster-wide pod CIDR is logically partitioned into smaller “node” blocks where each node is assigned a fixed CIDR slice (/24) by Azure. This decouples ...
Update Type: GA, Services: , Categories:

Voice sync for avatar support in Voice Live API in Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:15:50 Z

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now supports avatar voice sync with custom voices in the Voice Live API, allowing developers to pair branded or persona-specific text-to-speech voices with real-time avatar experiences. This update helps teams building
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

Azure Files assessments are now available worldwide using Azure Migrate

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:45:11 Z

We’re pleased to announce that Azure Migrate now generally supports discovery and assessment of SMB and NFS file shares hosted on Windows and Linux servers. This gives customers a complete, data-driven view of their file share environment and a clear path
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Migrate, Azure Storage, Categories: Services, Management

AI pipelines in Azure HorizonDB

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:45:40 Z

AI pipelines for Azure HorizonDB is now available in public preview. AI pipelines let you describe an AI data ingestion workflow, chunking, embedding, extraction, generation, and ranking, declaratively in SQL, and run it as a fault-tolerant pipeline insid
Update Type: Preview, Services: HorizonDB, Categories: Features

Ingest OTLP signals into Azure Monitor with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:45:40 Z

Azure Monitor's support for native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals is now generally available. This enables you to send telemetry data directly from OpenTelemetry-instrumented applications and platforms to Azure Monitor. You can configu
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Management, Open Source

Tool search in Microsoft Foundry toolboxes

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z

Microsoft Foundry adds tool search to Foundry toolboxes in public preview, giving developers and admins a fast way to find the right tool inside large, multi-team catalogs. As your toolbox grows, sending every tool definition on every turn gets expensive.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories:

APIM Support for Foundry Models in Azure AI Search

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z

Microsoft Foundry brings Azure API Management support to all Foundry model integrations in Azure AI Search, now in public preview. Enterprise platform engineers and AI solution teams running large-scale RAG pipelines can place Foundry and Azure OpenAI mod
Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

Azure SQL as a knowledge source in Foundry IQ

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z

Microsoft Foundry adds Azure SQL Database as a first-class Knowledge Source in Azure AI Search, available in public preview. Enterprise developers and solution architects building Copilot, RAG, and agentic experiences can now expose authoritative tables a
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, SQL Database, Categories:

Microsoft Discovery

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z

Microsoft Discovery is now generally available, providing research and development organizations an enterprise platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows across scientific and engineering disciplines. Also available in preview is the Microso
Update Type: GA, Services: , Categories:

Private Connectivity for Azure AI Search and Foundry Knowledge Bases

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z

Azure AI Search and Foundry Knowledge Bases now support private, end-to-end network connectivity between search resources and Foundry services. Customers can route ingestion, enrichment, retrieval, and agent traffic over Shared Private Link or Network Sec
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Private Link, Categories:

Fabric IQ Ontology Knowledge Source in Microsoft Foundry IQ

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z

Microsoft Foundry IQ now treats a Microsoft Fabric Ontology as a federated knowledge source in public preview, giving agents a way to query the semantic layer customers already curate in Fabric. Foundry IQ translates natural language questions into ontolo
Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Microsoft Foundry IQ

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z

Microsoft Foundry IQ reaches general availability, giving developers a managed knowledge layer that grounds agents in enterprise data without rebuilding retrieval pipelines for each project. Teams connect SharePoint, OneLake, Azure Blob, and other sources
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Categories:

Content Understanding chunking and image verbalization in Azure AI Search

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:00:34 Z

Azure AI Search now supports Content Understanding chunking and image verbalization in public preview, expanding the built-in skill that parses rich documents during indexing. Indexers can split documents into semantically meaningful chunks and generate t
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories:

From query acceleration to cache cooldown: Everything new in Fabric Data Warehouse at Build 2026

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:30:00 Z

The rise of AI is fundamentally changing what we demand from a data platform. AI agents and copilots are becoming virtual analysts — issuing queries autonomously, at scale, and at speeds that expose every weakness in a slow or rigid platform. Your mission-critical warehouse must now deliver ultra-fast performance and rich analytics not just for human analysts, but for fleets of AI-powered agents that expect instant answers from trusted data.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Benchmarking Dataflow Gen2: Faster data transformation at lower cost

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:00:00 Z

The evolution of data transformation in Microsoft Fabric has reached a new milestone with Dataflow Gen2 (CI/CD). Recent benchmarks reveal not just incremental progress, but a leap forward—delivering order-of-magnitude improvements in both cost and performance compared to previous generations, including Semantic Models. This blog post explores the numbers, the architectural impact, and why Dataflow Gen2 (CI/CD) with Lakehouse and Power BI Direct Lake is the best setup for customers.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Giving Developers Claude Code with Azure API Management and Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:41:00 Z

Summary You want to give your engineering org Claude Code without handing out Anthropic API keys, without per-developer billing sprawl, and without losing visibility into who is spending what. This...
Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Management

Connecting Claude Clients with Azure API Management and Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:41:00 Z

Migration Assistant Enhancements for Fabric Data Warehouse

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:30:00 Z

Migrating enterprise data warehouses have traditionally been complex—requiring manual preparation, deep SQL expertise, and multiple disconnected tools. The Migration Assistant for Fabric Data Warehouse offers a guided, intelligent migration experience. The new enhancements to Migration Assistant further streamline migrations, reduce friction, and help teams move to Fabric faster with greater flexibility and confidence.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Dataflow Gen2 and Power Query innovations at Microsoft Build: Low-code data transformation with standout scale, performance, and reuse

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z

This week at Microsoft Build, we are announcing a broad wave of innovation across Dataflow Gen2 and Power Query in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. These announcements build on the momentum customers are seeing with Dataflow Gen2 to prepare, transform, and operationalize data at scale—and reflect continued investment in making data transformation more scalable, more reusable, and more performant.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Power BI Embedded, Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Azure Monitor Service Level Indicators (SLI)

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:30:52 Z

Azure Monitor now includes Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), giving teams a clearer way to measure how customers actually experience their applications. Instead of relying only on infrastructure signals like CPU or isola
Update Type: GA, Services: Azure Monitor, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Advancing autonomous action with operations agent

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:30:00 Z

Operations agent in Microsoft Fabric are autonomous agents that watch your data, reason about what’s happening, and take action when something needs attention. Operations agent moves your team from dashboards-and-alerts to outcomes. You describe the goal; the agent does the monitoring, diagnosis, and with your approval the work.
Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Categories:

Orchestration in Fabric Data Factory: Build 2026 recap

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z

Microsoft Fabric Data Factory's Build 2026 release reshapes what pipelines can do — moving beyond data movement & process orchestration into the people and processes around your data. New Approval activities bring human decision-making directly into pipeline flows, while conditional retries deliver smarter resilience against transient failures. Materialized Lake View and SQL endpoint refresh activities keep analytics in lockstep with orchestration, a modern canvas makes complex pipelines easier to navigate, and expanded Variable Libraries now cover connections, items, and Airflow for seamless promotion across dev, test, and prod. Plus, in-workspace ADF migration makes getting started faster than ever.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Fabric, Data Factory, Categories:

Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:00:24 Z

Why edge AI development is still hard AI is no longer confined to cloud experiments. Developers are increasingly expected to deliver AI inside apps, devices, and edge systems where responsiveness, privacy, resilience, and local control are essential. But building those experiences for production is still difficult. Teams often have to solve model packaging, runtime fragmentation, hardware differences, […] The post Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: