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Agentic Platform Engineering with GitHub Copilot
We've talked about the human scale problem and what happens when infrastructure scales but understanding doesn't. If you've been following along, you know the thesis: our tools have outpaced our ability to operate them, and platform engineering is how we're fighting back.
But here's...
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And the developers running Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI didn't notice...
Status Page Says 'Operational.' Your Subagents Say Otherwise.
If you're running autonomous agents in any serious capacity, you've experienced this: model provider outages aren't edge cases —...
Read moreClick to read more about this postBreaking Change Ahead: Graph API Updates to Sensitive Email Properties
On 12/31/2026, we will begin restricting updates to sensitive properties on non-draft email messages (including subject, body, and recipients). Apps will need Mail-Advanced.ReadWrite (or .All / .Shared) with admin consent to continue modifying these fields. Review your current usage and update permissions now to avoid unexpected failures.
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Mar 18, 2026
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Announcing PowerShell 7.6 (LTS) GA Release
We're excited to announce the General Availability of PowerShell 7.6, the next Long Term Support
(LTS) release of PowerShell. PowerShell 7.6 is built on .NET 10 (LTS), continuing the alignment
between PowerShell and the modern .NET platform.
PowerShell 7.6 includes reliability...
PowerShell Team
Mar 18, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd): Run and test AI agents locally with azd
PuiChee,
Travis
New azd ai agent run and invoke commands let you start and test AI agents from your terminal—locally or in the cloud.
Azure SDK Blog
Mar 18, 2026
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Authentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract
Authentication tokens exist to answer one question: is this caller authorized to do this?
They are not intended to be a stable data interface, a schema you can depend on, or an input into application logic.
If your application decodes tokens and reads claims from them, this is an...
Azure DevOps Blog
Mar 18, 2026
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DiskANN Vector Index Improvements
Davide,
Pooja
Remember when we announced the Public Preview of DiskANN vector indexes back in November and mentioned that once you created the index, your table became read‑only? Yeah… about that... 😅 We shipped early because the demand for Vector search in SQL was overwhelming. We knew the...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Mar 18, 2026
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Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses
Sergey,
Eduard
Handling Long-Running Operations with Background Responses
AI agents powered by reasoning models can take minutes to work through complex problems — deep research, multi-step analysis, lengthy content generation. In a traditional request-response pattern, that means your client sits...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Mar 18, 2026
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MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Notebooks, AI-Powered Schema Design, Data API builder & More
Yo-Lei,
Tauseef,
Carlos
The MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.41 continues to evolve, delivering features that make SQL development more integrated, more powerful, and more developer-friendly. In this release, we're introducing the Public Preview of Schema Designer with GitHub Copilot, Data API builder, and SQL...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Mar 18, 2026
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Changes to attachment IDs for inline images in Outlook add-ins
Read how inline image attachments are handled when they’re programmatically added to a mail item's signature or body in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Mar 18, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: Alpha AXP
Double the size, double the fun.
The Old New Thing
Mar 17, 2026
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From 150 Unread to Zero Stress: Automating Inbox Triage with MCP and GitHub Copilot
Taming the Noisy Inbox: How I Used MCP to Automate Email and Teams Triage
How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) turns your AI coding assistant into a workplace productivity engine — connecting Microsoft 365 data to your terminal workflow.
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