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Microsoft 365

In a previous article, we discussed how to convert Exchange folderIds (as returned by the Get-MailboxFolderStatistics cmdlet) to the RestId identifiers employed by the Graph API. Here, we present a version of the script that can run non-interactively and has no PowerShell module…

MVPVasil Michev
Intune / Endpoint

This week is all about the recently introduced capability to collect Windows registry data (or in other words, the ability to perform registry inventory). A lot has been written about that capability, but it is such an important enhancement that it deserves a place on this blog…

MVPPeter van der Woude
Intune / EndpointAzureAI

This post is dedicated on how to automate an AVD hybrid deployment. I use Hyper V as my hypervisor OS where the AVD hybrid machines reside. I use PowerShell to create the machines and install the Arc agent and join them to the AVD hostpool. To further clarify, I use PowerShell…

MVPNiels Kok
Microsoft 365SecurityAI

AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.

Intune / Endpoint

A lot of excitement this week about the solar eclipse, I’m old enough to remember the one in 1999! Hopefully you all managed to see it one way or another. Next weeks newsletter will probably be scheduled, I’m over at a Robopack company event planning the exciting functionality…

MVPAndrew Taylor
Entra / IdentitySecurity

Most organizations have moved their applications, devices, and business processes to the cloud, but identity often remains dependent on Active Directory. That gap can increase operational complexity, limit modern security controls, and slow the adoption of new cloud and AI…

OfficialMicrosoft Entra Blog
Microsoft 365AI

Microsoft AI just introduced MAI-Thinking-1, their first reasoning model – and it is already in the Microsoft Foundry model catalog in public preview. Announced August 12, 2026, this is MAI’s own reasoning model, trained from the ground up, not distilled from anyone else’s…

MVPVesa Nopanen (My Teams Day)
AI

A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning. The post MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities appeared first on Microsoft…

OfficialMicrosoft Research
Entra / Identity

This post builds on the strategic foundations introduced in End VPN gaps with identity-first access. Read the strategic overview to understand why Zero Trust must apply to every resource before diving into implementation. TL;DR: Your quick guide Reduce deployment risk by using…

OfficialMicrosoft Entra Blog
Intune / Endpoint

I have a reboot package PSADT and the first dialog give the user the choice to defer the install, and a Scheduled Task is created to run an hour later. I am returning a 1618 (retry) and inside the PSADT, If Intune runs the app again, it will check my reg key for the defer and…

OfficialMicrosoft Intune Blog
AI

Radiology AI is evolving beyond report generation. CARE-X explores a unified approach that combines flexible reasoning, calibrated predictions, and measurement-based tools for chest X-ray interpretation. The post Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with…

OfficialMicrosoft Research
Microsoft 365Security

I recently built a custom integration Microsoft Calendar for Home Assistant. Which does just that, connect your Microsoft 365 calendar to Home Assistant. Allowing you to react to events from your calendar and to even modify events in your calendar. This post will describe how…

Security

Home Assistant is an open source, local focussed home automation platform, why would it need PKCE support? Not all devices have a local api, and for those products and services that only have a cloud api or are in fact cloud only we want the most secure way to connect. Home…

AI

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

OfficialOpenAI
Intune / Endpoint

This week is all about customizing the pinned folders in the Start layout, and is a follow-up on this post about customizing the power options in Start layout. Again, it is important to start with that the fact that something is technically possible, does not mean that it should…

MVPPeter van der Woude
Entra / IdentitySecurity

Hello everyone, I'm Yina Arenas. I'm honored to have joined Microsoft Security as the CVP and Chief Product Officer of Identity and Network Access and to introduce myself to the legendary Microsoft Entra community. Having spent much of my career focused on platform innovation,…

OfficialMicrosoft Entra Blog
Security

I’m a long time user of Home Assistant, it allows me to locally control most devices in my home. My home assistant installation method of choice is the Home assistant container running in docker. I like to manage things myself and didn’t want to utilize Home Assistant OS. This…

Entra / Identity

HelloWe have a scenario for which I need helpUser account was disabled and was in Disabled account OU when she joined back it was enabled and moved to proper user account OU.This is synched from onpremise in O365The earlier mailbox is converted from user mailbox to a cloud…

OfficialMicrosoft Entra Blog
Intune / Endpoint

Hello Community! We've been occasionally getting this error with some of our machines when trying to manually enroll them in Intune:Error `0x80180014` with the message "does not support this version of Windows" From what I've seen, it typically happens to very specific devices.…

OfficialMicrosoft Intune Blog
Intune / Endpoint

Back again already, some weeks I feel like I finish putting together one newsletter and immediately start the next! A slightly lighter week this week, but it is holiday season so everyone is hopefully off enjoying themselves before it all begins again next month (including…

MVPAndrew Taylor
Entra / IdentityAI

Traditional VPNs extend network access—but they were not built continuously evaluate identity, device posture, location, user risk, or session context. That gap can leave AI apps, SaaS, on-premises applications, unmanaged services, and internet traffic unevenly protected. Zero…

OfficialMicrosoft Entra Blog
Intune / Endpoint

Hello,We develop a MDM solution and we would like to become device compliance partner to offer our customers conditionnal access functionality. After filling twice (the first time almost two month ago) the form "Intune partner compliance onboarding request" whose link is…

OfficialMicrosoft Intune Blog
AI

Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure. The post Orchard: An open…

OfficialMicrosoft Research
Intune / Endpoint

AppVentiX is updated. It can now deploy signed App Control policies with ease. This is a big thing because signed App Control policies make your environment significantly more secure! For people new to AppVentiX and App Control please check out my previous post. This post takes…

MVPNiels Kok
Microsoft 365

Microsoft is quietly rolling out the OneDrive Photos app to Windows. Many organizations aren’t waiting for it to show up unexpectedly to users, or they simply never want it to appear at all. In this article, you will learn how to remove the OneDrive Photos app. OneDrive Photos…

MVPAli Tajran
Intune / Endpoint

How time flies, can you believe it’s the end of July already! I had a lovely few days at the beginning of the week at Loch Lomond to fully recharge the batteries. A slightly quieter week this week for content, hopefully everyone is enjoying the weather and the holidays (or busy…

MVPAndrew Taylor
AI

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply providing more training tasks, helping them improve as the tasks, tests, and environments evolve. The post Echoverse:…

OfficialMicrosoft Research
AI

LLMs do not get smarter just by remembering more. EvoLib turns experience into evolving knowledge, taking reusable skills and insights that help models learn and adapt across tasks long after deployment. The post EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge appeared first…

OfficialMicrosoft Research
Entra / IdentityMicrosoft 365

In this article, we take a quick look at the recently introduced sponsorOf property/relationship for Graph API user objects. We examine how to leverage the property, provide few Graph query examples, and even correct some of the inconsistencies from the official documentation.…

MVPVasil Michev
Intune / Endpoint

Ask an IT admin what a good day looks like, and it usually comes down to one word: control. Control means you push a change and know it landed. It means you have a clear view into your device fleet, from compliance status to sync health. That certainty is what helps IT stay…

OfficialMicrosoft Intune Blog
Entra / IdentityMicrosoft 365

Microsoft introduced (Entra ID) Group insights in the beginning of the year. Still in public preview, the feature provides “at a glance” dashboard to highlight some common scenarios, as well as more detailed views in each supported category. While there is nothing revolutionary…

MVPVasil Michev
Entra / Identity

We're trying to verify our custom domain in Entra ID, but it turns out the domain is already claimed on another tenant that we have no access to (unknown account, no admin credentials). Because of that, verification on our own tenant fails.Normally the fix for a claimed-domain…

OfficialMicrosoft Entra Blog
Entra / IdentityIntune / Endpoint

Hello everyone,I need some help!We are configuring Intune to allow BYOD on iOS devices using the Account Driven User Enrollment method. In this scenario, the user enrolls the device by following the path:Settings > General > VPN & Device Management > Sign in to your…

OfficialMicrosoft Intune Blog
Intune / EndpointMicrosoft 365

Check out the newly introduced SharePoint Online throttling report, now available under the /beta Graph API endpoint. … Continue readingSharePoint Online throttling report

MVPVasil Michev
Microsoft 365AI

We take yet another look at the (lack of proper) APIs for managing agents and Copilot policy settings within Microsoft 365. Spoiler alert, things haven't changed much since last time. … Continue readingThe sad state of governance APIs for Copilot and Agent 365

MVPVasil Michev
Entra / Identity

Welcome to the July edition of our monthly newsletter, summarizing the latest news and developments in the exciting, ever-evolving world of Microsoft Entra. What went into General Availability (GA) since June 2026? Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery - A capability that helps…

OfficialMicrosoft Entra Blog
Intune / Endpoint

Hopefully you didn’t miss this too much last week, I was away enjoying a relaxing break in Madeira with my family, but we have content from the last 2 weeks here so you haven’t missed anything Community Content Video Content Microsoft Content Community Content We start this week…

MVPAndrew Taylor
Entra / IdentitySecurity

Check out this article via web browser: How to add granular amr claims to your SAML apps in Entra ID In my last post, I covered how Entra ID now automatically sends the amr and acr claims for Salesforce, so its phishing-resistant MFA check finally has something to check. That…

MVPJan Bakker
AI

Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

OfficialOpenAI
Entra / IdentitySecurity

To align with Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative and its focus on identity security and phishing resistance, we’re evolving Microsoft Entra custom branding to help customers deliver sign-in experiences that are more secure, reliable, and consistent. Beginning October 26, 2026,…

OfficialMicrosoft Entra Blog
Entra / IdentityIntune / EndpointSecurity

Check out this article via web browser: Lock or sign-out when Yubikey is removed from the device I didn’t know there was already a solution for this, and maybe you are looking for it too. I learned about this from the Blue Security Podcast. Meet: YubiKey Locker | Yubico With…

MVPJan Bakker
Security

LG monitor that install adware once plugged in to your machine, that does not sound good. Apparently Microsoft allows “trusted” driver providers to include apps in their driver metadata. Meaning if Windows detects such a device it will “auto” install the apps (by default).

Entra / IdentitySecurityAI

Check out this article via web browser: Writing Maester tests using AI – From idea to Pull Request I love Maester. No doubt about that. I’ve made several contributions to this open-source project before, but it took me a lot of effort to learn how the underlying structure worked…

MVPJan Bakker
Entra / IdentitySecurityAI

Today's threats don't respect boundaries. As AI agents proliferate across enterprise workflows, employees work from everywhere, and organizations adopt cloud-first architectures, the attack surface has fundamentally shifted. Traditional perimeter security can no longer keep pace…

OfficialMicrosoft Entra Blog
AI

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

OfficialOpenAI
Security

Wednesday July 15th 2026 I got an email from Microsoft, “You’ve been accepted to the Microsoft MVP Program!”. The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award is given to people like me who contribute a lot to open-source, speak at conferences, write documentation or help others…

Entra / IdentityIntune / EndpointSecurity

Check out this article via web browser: Admin control for SSO prompts in Windows; finally, an off switch! If you’ve been paying attention to the EEA sign-in changes over the past while, you’ll know Microsoft started prompting users before reusing their Windows credentials to…

MVPJan Bakker
AzureMicrosoft 365AI

Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value. It is the same Databricks platform your teams already know, co-engineered with Microsoft and delivered as a native Azure…

OfficialAzure Blog
Security

I’ve been running this blog for a while, and the past year the search was broken. I had started fixing it and failed miserably. I finally took some time to redesign it and it is faster then ever.

AI

Cryptographic code supports vital protections in modern computing systems. Learn how a new method helps verify code as developers write it while preserving speed and adaptability as it gets implemented and evolves. The post Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards…

OfficialMicrosoft Research
Intune / Endpoint

Welcome back and for those in the UK, it’s nearly school holidays time (for those in Scandinavia, enjoy the long break). There will probably be no newsletter next week as I’m having a very much needed week off with my family, but I’ll make sure everything is included in the…

MVPAndrew Taylor
AzureAI

Introducing OpenAI's latest frontier model series, the Asia Pacific Data Zone, and product agent capabilities, all generally available in Microsoft Foundry. The post GPT-5.6 now available in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

OfficialAzure Blog
AI

Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for real-world weather, climate, and energy applications. The post Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather…

OfficialMicrosoft Research
Azure

Cloud resiliency is about ensuring systems can adapt, recover, and keep functioning within real-world constraints. The post Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

OfficialAzure Blog
AI

Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive charts from compact, human-editable specifications. The post Flint: A visualization…

OfficialMicrosoft Research
Intune / Endpoint

This week is all about customizing the power options in the Start layout, and is the first follow-up on this post about customizing the account settings in Start layout. Again, it is important to start with that the fact that something is technically possible, does not mean that…

MVPPeter van der Woude
Entra / IdentityIntune / EndpointMicrosoft 365

A quick look at the recently introduced SharePoint API usage report. While the report seems to complement the already available Graph API usage one, it gets its own endpoint and even a settings to control its data collection. The latter point is not clearly explained in the…

MVPVasil Michev
Entra / Identity

Check out this article via web browser: KB – employeeLeaveDateTime show empty (null) This is a knowledge base item. I hope it will help you someday. The issue When syncing the employeeLeaveDateTime attribute to Entra ID, the value shows null. In this example, I use Graph…

MVPJan Bakker
Intune / EndpointAzure

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) has a new feature in public preview called context based redirections. Read about it here on Microsoft Learn. The instruction on Microsoft Learn are a rough guidance. I try to elaborate on the feature in this blog and try to give extensive…

MVPNiels Kok
Intune / Endpoint

Good news, it’s Friday which means I’m free to send this newsletter before delving back into the murky depths of Graph. Fortunately it’s been a cooler week this week, but it looks like next week is going to be another hot one! But we aren’t here to talk about the weather, that’s…

MVPAndrew Taylor
Intune / EndpointSecurity

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) provides advanced endpoint protection, detection, and response capabilities for Linux systems. While the solution is designed to operate efficiently, administrators may occasionally experience performance issues such as high CPU utilization,…

MVPJeffrey Appel
Azure

Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production. The post Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio appeared first on Microsoft…

OfficialAzure Blog
Microsoft 365

It is July morning, which means the latest edition of the best Microsoft 365 book out there is now available! For this year’s edition, we’ve made some changes and introduced two new books, which you can get either standalone or as part of the main bundle. You can find all ……

MVPVasil Michev
AI

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights. The post SkillOpt: Agent skills…

OfficialMicrosoft Research
AI

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.

OfficialOpenAI
Microsoft 365AI

June has been very busy. A lot is happening with Microsoft 365 and Copilot and June hasn’t been an exception.Claude went generally available in Microsoft Foundry, Teams new features, Copilot Notebooks opened up to a much wider audience, Planner agent hit GA, and the Learning…

MVPVesa Nopanen (My Teams Day)
AI

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

OfficialOpenAI
Intune / Endpoint

The weather has been wild this week, I’ve never been more glad to be living further North, hopefully you’re all keeping cool somehow! The key announcement this week, down in the Microsoft news, is preparing for 26H2 release, time to get testing. Plenty of great community content…

MVPAndrew Taylor
Intune / Endpoint

With Intune Suite now included in E5 (and partly in E3), I imagine a lot of you are wondering what you are now getting and how much of it you will actually use. In this post I’ll look at what’s included for both E3 and E5 users and then run through what each does and ... Read…

MVPAndrew Taylor
Intune / Endpoint

This week is all about customizing the account settings in the Start layout. Customizing the Start menu layout has been the subject of discussion multiple times already on this blog. There is, however, a lot more that can be done. Of course, that something is possible, does not…

MVPPeter van der Woude
Entra / IdentityIntune / EndpointSecurity

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of context-based redirections for Windows 365 Cloud PCs and AVD. This new feature is a welcome addition to how we control redirections of things like clipboard copy/ paste from the local device to the Cloud PC. Until now…

MVPIn The Cloud 247 (Peter Klapwijk)
Intune / Endpoint

Welcome back everyone! You will notice a theme in this weeks community posts, Intune Suite is finally hitting E5 (and some bits in E3) so there is a lot of information out there covering the different functionality now available to many of you. Community Content Video Content…

MVPAndrew Taylor
AI

Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.

OfficialOpenAI
Security

Today June 16th I had the pleasure to do an introduction to access packages at the Dutch Microsoft Security Meetup. I really like this security meetup. They start with dinner, then two talks and a closing pubquiz. Dutch Microsoft Security Meetup: Access packages UI

Microsoft 365AI

Cowork is the fastest growing feature in the history of our Frontier program, and Cowork has among the highest user satisfaction of any Copilot or agent experience we have shipped. The post Copilot Cowork is now generally available appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog.

OfficialMicrosoft 365 Blog
Microsoft 365AI

The world moves fast. New features arrive every week, and time to write about them is limited. So I did an experiment: I asked Copilot Cowork to help me write this very blog post – about how to write blog posts with Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork. Yes, it is that meta! 🤠 I have…

MVPVesa Nopanen (My Teams Day)
Microsoft 365AI

Presenting is a big part of my work and community activities- either in-person or online. I am doing presentations to customers, leading workshops, on stage at conferences, in community events, and of course in countless Teams meetings. For in-person events a good presentation…

MVPVesa Nopanen (My Teams Day)
Intune / Endpoint

Why use signed policies for App Control? Signed App Control policies give organizations the highest level of protection available in Windows. This is designed to detect if someone or something tampers with your policies. If so, that result in a blue screen or boot failure. This…

MVPNiels Kok
Intune / Endpoint

Welcome back everyone! This weeks newsletter comes live from Experts Live UK where I have had a very busy week and am very much looking forward to the weekend. A special thanks to everyone who attended the Intune pre-day workshop: This has been put together in trains, hotel…

MVPAndrew Taylor
AI

OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.

OfficialOpenAI
Microsoft 365

An Unlock Teams Premium button appears in Microsoft Teams for users, and many keep asking what it is. Some even click it and start a trial. That’s something most organizations want to avoid. In this article, you will learn how to remove the Unlock Teams Premium button in…

MVPAli Tajran
Intune / Endpoint

Video Companion Guide When managing Windows updates via Microsoft Intune, administrators often face confusion regarding how different update policies interact. This guide, based on the video tutorial, answers five fundamental architectural questions and provides configuration…

MVPManish Bangia
Intune / EndpointMicrosoft 365AI

Microsoft Build 2026 keynote Tuesday was a good one— and just like every year there is an avalanche news. I have done what I usually do: I put the hat on, read through the announcements, checked more details on those that mattered, and picked the news that will actually change…

MVPVesa Nopanen (My Teams Day)
AI

OpenAI outlines its public policy agenda for AI, including safety, youth protection, workforce transition, and global standards to ensure AI benefits society.

OfficialOpenAI
Security

I want to do a session on access packages at Experts Live The Netherlands, will you join me Fabian? This question was the start of our session on Access packages at Experts Live NL, with this idea in mind I had to think up a clever use-case that would spark interest with both…

Microsoft 365AI

Work IQ is a new intelligence layer for Microsoft 365, designed to understand how work gets done across your organizations. The post Announcing the new Work IQ APIs appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog.

OfficialMicrosoft 365 Blog
Entra / IdentitySecurity

The biggest community driven event around the Microsoft ecosystem in The Netherlands is Experts Live. And in 2026 the organization had the idea to do one day of deep dive masterclasses before the regular conference day. I was asked by Jan Bakker to join the Identity masterclass.…

AI

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move faster from…

OfficialOpenAI
Microsoft 365AI

Claude Opus 4.8 was published yesterday, and it was made available also via Microsoft Foundry. You can deploy Claude Opus 4.8 to Global Standard region. Claude Opus 4.8 is our most intelligent Opus model and the best generally available model for coding and agents, with deeper…

MVPVesa Nopanen (My Teams Day)
Entra / IdentitySecurity

Explaining developers how to correctly implement identity in production, that is a topic that does not get enough attention. Most developers don’t really like to talk about security or identity. They see it as a nuisance, “I have to do this, but I don’t really like it”. Luise…

Microsoft 365

Proper time synchronization is a key part of a healthy Active Directory environment. The Primary Domain Controller (PDC) acts as the main time authority, so it must stay accurately synced with an external NTP server to ensure all systems in the network operate correctly. In this…

MVPAli Tajran
Microsoft 365AI

As a consultant who works on modern & future work, AI and Microsoft 365, my mouse is one of the tools I use the most every single day. I have been a long-time fan of the MX Master line — the MX Master 3s has been my daily driver for years — so when Logitech … Continue…

MVPVesa Nopanen (My Teams Day)
Entra / IdentityMicrosoft 365AI

So many AI Agents are available to use in your tenant without you even knowing. More and more agents are becoming available, and this will keep going. Unless you put a stop to it or manage it. The first thing you should do is block the high-risk ones. In this article, you will…

MVPAli Tajran
Entra / Identity

Check out this article via web browser: Domainless SAML federation in Microsoft Entra External ID If you’ve ever set up direct federation with a SAML Identity Provider in Microsoft Entra External ID, you’ll know the pain. You configure everything correctly, invite a guest user,…

MVPJan Bakker
Intune / Endpoint

This week is all about the new and enhanced app inventory for Windows devices. A lot has been written about that feature already, but it is such an important enhancement that it deserves it place on this blog as well. For many years the best thing for app inventory in Microsoft…

MVPPeter van der Woude
Entra / IdentityMicrosoft 365

Over the years, we’ve covered Entra application management policies several times, most recently in this article. If you need a refresher, app management policies allow you to configure various restrictions on application and service principal objects in your tenant, such as…

MVPVasil Michev
AI

Preview a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT for Pro users in the U.S. Securely connect your financial accounts and get AI-powered insights and guidance grounded in your financial context, goals, and priorities.

OfficialOpenAI
SecurityAI

OpenAI details its response to the TanStack “Mini Shai-Hulud” supply chain attack, outlines protections taken to secure systems and signing certificates, and explains why macOS users must update OpenAI apps by June 12, 2026. Learn what happened, what was affected, and how OpenAI…

OfficialOpenAI
Security

In my series “Detect threats using *GraphActivityLogs” I covered a lot of the basics on how to use different methods to detect certain reconnaissance tooling based on fingerprinting the specific sequence of requests or the volume of requests made to the Microsoft Graph…

MVPFabian Bader
Entra / IdentityMicrosoft 365AI

In this article, we provide few simple examples on how to leverage the Agent 365 APIs in order to control availability of agents within your Microsoft 365 tenant. The currently supported operations include blocking and unblocking agents, allowing them for a set of users,…

MVPVasil Michev
SecurityAI

How OpenAI runs Codex securely with sandboxing, approvals, network policies, and agent-native telemetry to support safe and compliant coding agent adoption.

OfficialOpenAI
Entra / IdentityMicrosoft 365

The Conditional Access policy feature in Microsoft Entra ID is one of the most essential ones to set up when it comes to securing your Microsoft tenant. While every organization is different, there are certain CA policies that every tenant must set. But what if you have many CA…

MVPAli Tajran
AI

Meet the ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026—26 student innovators using AI to build, research, and drive real-world impact. Discover how this generation is redefining learning, creativity, and opportunity with ChatGPT.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with a beta self-serve Ads Manager, CPC bidding, and enhanced measurement tools—built to protect privacy and keep conversations separate from ads.

OfficialOpenAI
Microsoft 365

I was today’s years old when I found out that we have an UI to review Outlook Actionable Messages providers added within a tenant, or that such providers can be scoped to the organization, or even specific mailboxes. For the vast majority of tenants, this will likely not be of ……

MVPVasil Michev
AI

Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Sam Altman shares five principles that guide our work.

OfficialOpenAI
Entra / IdentitySecurity

Over the past years I’ve been a regular attendee at the DOTNET Zuid meetup, a community-driven event for .NET developers in the south of the Netherlands. In January 2026, I was asked to give a talk at their meetup, and I really enjoyed it. Introducing identity proxy at .NET Zuid…

AI

A new framework analyzes 921 occupations and 148 million U.S. jobs to identify which roles face automation risk, reorganization, growth, or minimal AI disruption.

OfficialOpenAI
Intune / EndpointMicrosoft 365

The MD-102 exam is about to receive a minor update, only changing the Windows LAPS domain objective. So far we aren’t seeing any impact on the exam topics based on the recent addition of Intune suite capabilities into some Microsoft 365 suites, so that might be something we see…

MVPIntune.in
Microsoft 365SecurityAI

Microsoft keeps moving fast, and April has brought so many Copilot updates that it is worth taking a look. We have a fresh capabilities in Word for high-stakes document workflows, a strong release wave across the Copilot apps, new security, and management, and analytics controls…

MVPVesa Nopanen (My Teams Day)
Entra / IdentityIntune / EndpointMicrosoft 365

Over the past few years, Microsoft has been slowly ramping up the “profile” experience. The recent addition of certifications and awards is what prompted me to refresh my memory on the /profile endpoint, so let’s take a deeper look, shall we. As a reminder, each user within the…

MVPVasil Michev
AI

Learn how to build and use workspace agents in ChatGPT to automate repeatable workflows, connect tools, and streamline team operations.

OfficialOpenAI
Microsoft 365Security

Microsoft is strengthening security in Power Platform. Starting March 30, 2026, Microsoft enables Power Platform tenant isolation by default for new tenants. If you created your tenant before this date, you need to enable it manually. In this article, you will learn how to…

MVPAli Tajran
AI

Learn how to use ChatGPT for research to gather sources, analyze information, and create structured, citation-backed insights.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Learn how to personalize ChatGPT using custom instructions and memory to get more relevant, consistent, and tailored responses.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Learn how to create and use ChatGPT skills to build reusable workflows, automate recurring tasks, and ensure consistent, high-quality outputs.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Learn how managers use ChatGPT to prepare for conversations, write clear feedback, stay organized, and improve team effectiveness.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Learn how to research with ChatGPT using search and deep research to find up-to-date information, analyze sources, and generate structured insights.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Explore AI resources for financial services, including prompt packs, GPTs, guides, and tools to help institutions deploy and scale AI securely.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Learn how to build and use custom GPTs to automate workflows, maintain consistent outputs, and create purpose-built AI assistants.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Learn what AI is, how it works, and how tools like ChatGPT use large language models. A clear, beginner-friendly guide to understanding artificial intelligence.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Explore how clinicians use ChatGPT to support diagnosis, documentation, and patient care with secure, HIPAA-compliant AI tools.

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SecurityAI

I wanted to build my next app in WinUI, and I wanted to have a rail menu, with big clickable icons that would navigate to a different page. AI Dev Gallery has a great example of this, and fortunately it is all open-source. In this post I will show you how you can replicate this…

Entra / IdentityMicrosoft 365

Microsoft recommends that all customers disable hard matching and soft matching in Microsoft Entra ID unless they need it to take over cloud-only accounts. By default, both settings are not blocked in the tenants, so you must set it yourself. In this article, you will learn how…

MVPAli Tajran
Entra / IdentityIntune / EndpointMicrosoft 365AI

The first iteration or (read-only) methods and endpoints for Agents is now available on the Graph. In this article, we explore the currently available LIST and GET methods and the details they reveal about agents within Microsoft 365. More to come as Microsoft updates the API...…

MVPVasil Michev
Intune / EndpointAzureMicrosoft 365SecurityAI

This is my first post about AI. I had to start sometime right? This post is about building your own AI Intune Assistant with Microsoft Foundry. It is based on the idea that you won’t need Security Copilot if you learn to use some tools… Let’s dive in! This is what we are…

MVPNiels Kok
Entra / IdentitySecurity

In Entra ID, Conditional Access acts as the gatekeeper to any token material. Regardless of whether you want a bearer token or a refresh token, Entra ID will be the entity creating and signing them. But not before Conditional Access has checked your identity, device and network…

MVPFabian Bader
AI

OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.

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Microsoft 365Security

The MVP Summit is an annual event where Microsoft MVPs from around the world gather to talk to Microsoft product teams. Learn about what is coming and mainly connecting with other MVPs. In 2026 my company Roostersync made it possible for me to attend the summit for the third…

AI

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app with safety at the foundation. Our approach is anchored in concrete protections.

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Intune / Endpoint

My homelab also contains a SuperMicro server that has an IPMI interface. I was tired of using the web interface to interact with that so I searched for an existing PowerShell module that can interact with the IPMI interface. I only found a module which is available on Windows,…

MVPNiels Kok
Intune / EndpointMicrosoft 365AI

We’re Joining #IntuneForMSPs 🎉 Being invited by Microsoft to join a global initiative is a big moment for us, and we want to be clear about why it matters. #IntuneForMSPs is Microsoft’s program to help MSPs deliver Microsoft 365, Intune, and Copilot services at scale, and CIPP…

Security

I don’t like repeating myself. I also don’t like writing boilerplate code. Whenever I have to interact with an API, I hope that there is an openapi specification available, or even better a client library. Microsoft has built an open source project called Kiota that can generate…

Entra / IdentityMicrosoft 365

A Graph SDK for PowerShell based script to export all BItLocker Recovery keys backed up to your Entra ID tenant. Keys are securely stored in the output and can only be accessed by the same user and device. Optionally, you can "unscramble" the output and store the recovery keys…

MVPVasil Michev
AzureSecurity

On March 11th 2026 I had the pleasure to visit FutureTech as a community partner. FutureTech is a technology focused conference mainly focused on .NET and Azure. As being a new member of the organizing team of DOTNET Zuid I was invited to visit the conference and just have a…

SecurityAI

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.

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Entra / IdentityMicrosoft 365

Earlier this year, we explored the newly added functionality to restrict access for multi-tenant Entra ID integrated apps. Now Microsoft has provided a simple UI to manage the feature, so you no longer have to rely on the Graph API methods. You will find the relevant bits under…

MVPVasil Michev
AI

Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.

OfficialOpenAI
AI

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

OfficialOpenAI
Security

As a frequent speaker at Experts live Netherlands, I also submitted a talk for the Danish edition of Experts Live, which took place in Copenhagen on February 25th, 2026. I was very happy to be accepted to speak at this event, which is one of the biggest Microsoft conferences in…

Entra / IdentityIntune / EndpointMicrosoft 365Security

Do you know how persistent your browser session is when a Conditional Access policy is active, in which the setting Persistent browser session is set to Never persistent? I assumed that the browser session would never be persistent, like the setting says. Maybe I just thought to…

MVPIn The Cloud 247 (Peter Klapwijk)