Month: May 2026

🔹 Feature: Bicep CLI — and Especially the Bicep Console 🔹 What It Does: The Bicep CLI is so much more than just a compiler to ARM JSON. It builds, lints, restores, decompiles, formats, snapshots, and …Read more

🔹 Feature: Bicep What-If — The “terraform plan” Equivalent for Azure Native IaC 🔹 What It Does: Love the safety of running Terraform plan before you apply? Bicep has the same thing. The wh…Read more

The big consumers inside each profile are usually stored in user profiles in subfolders, all of which are safe to delete (Chrome rebuilds them): To safely wipe caches across all profiles without losin…Read more

🔹 Feature: Video Recap in Microsoft 365 Copilot 🔹 What It Does: Copilot turns recorded Teams meetings into short, narrated video summaries — spotlighting the key moments, decisions, and discussion poi…Read more

🔹 Feature: Microsoft Entra Authentication for Application Insights 🔹 What It Does: Ingest telemetry into Application Insights using Microsoft Entra ID instead of instrumentation keys. Managed identiti…Read more

🔹 Feature: Azure Container Apps Express 🔹 What It Does: The fastest path from container image to internet-reachable app on Azure. No environment to provision, no networking to configure, no scaling ru…Read more

🔹 Feature: Azure Resource Manager MCP Server — Public Preview – Finally 🔹 What It Does: A remote MCP server that gives AI agents first-class access to Azure infrastructure operations through Azu…Read more

🔹 Feature: Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams 🔹 What It Does: Turn a 300-person meeting from “everyone listening like radio” into real, productive working sessions — split the audience into…Read more

🔹 Feature: New Endpoint Security for Azure Virtual Desktop & Windows 365 🔹 What It Does: Stop keyloggers from capturing what you type, and stop screen scrapers from capturing what you see. 🆕 What…Read more

🔹 Feature: SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric 🔹 What It Does: A fully managed, cloud-native SQL engine inside Fabric — built for operational workloads, AI apps, and the data plumbing that powers analyti…Read more

🔹 Feature: Extended SharePoint Permissions (ESP) 🔹 What It Does: Your SharePoint permissions — extended everywhere. Lose access in SharePoint, and the downloaded file won’t open anymore. Anywhere. 💡 T…Read more

🔹 Feature: Foundry Local (Orion) Edge AI SDK 🔹 What It Does: Run AI models directly on users’ devices without any separate runtime installation, setup scripts, or external dependencies. 💡 Thesis: Edge…Read more

🔹 Feature: azd ai agent extension 🔹 What It Does: Scaffold, provision, and deploy AI agents to Microsoft Foundry — straight from your terminal, from code to live endpoint in minutes. What is it giving…Read more

🔹 Feature: Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service 🔹 What It Does: Run your containerized AI agents on Microsoft-managed, agent-optimized infrastructure — simply bring your code, and Foundry handles th…Read more

🔹 Feature: Managed Identity on Azure Arc-enabled Servers 🔹 What It Does: Hybrid and on-prem servers connected via Azure Arc can now obtain a system-assigned managed identity from Microsoft Entra ID — …Read more

🔹 Feature: Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric 🔹 What It Does: Provides an end-to-end streaming analytics service that ingests, transforms, stores, queries, visualizes, and reacts to data in mo…Read more