Data & AI Workloads

What’s new?

🚀 Building Your First Local RAG Application with Foundry Local

Deep links

• Building Your First Local RAG Application with Foundry Local: A step-by-step guide to building a local Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application using Foundry Local, enabling developers to run AI models locally for development and prototyping. (Tech Community)

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Digital & App Innovation Workloads

What’s new?

🧑‍💻 GitHub Copilot Dev Days workshop materials added

🌐 Introduction of .NET Aspire section for cloud-native applications

Deep links

• GitHub Copilot Dev Days: Hands-on workshop materials for GitHub Copilot Dev Days, including coding exercises and real-world scenarios to help developers maximize Copilot. (GitHub)
• .NET Aspire: .NET Aspire is a cloud-ready stack for building observable, production-ready, distributed applications, with opinionated components and tooling for cloud-native development, including service discovery and resilience. (GitHub)

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Power Platform Workloads

What’s new?

🤖 Added “Agent Solution Ideas” to Copilot section

Deep links

• Agent Solution Ideas: A collection of architecture solution ideas for building agents with Microsoft Power Platform, providing patterns and guidance for common agent scenarios. (Microsoft Learn)

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Industry Solutions Workloads

What’s new?

🏆 Microsoft named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Industry Cloud Solutions for Public Sector, Q1 2026

Deep links

• Microsoft is named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Industry Cloud Solutions for Public Sector, Q1 2026: Recognition of Microsoft as a leader in Industry Cloud Solutions for the Public Sector. (Microsoft Industry Blog)

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Azure Workloads

What’s new?

🤖 Why Enterprises Fail to Scale AI Agents And What Fixes It

🏳️‍⚧️ Sovereign AI Landing Zone

Deep links

• Why Enterprises Fail to Scale AI Agents And What Fixes It: Deloitte perspective on common barriers that prevent enterprises from moving AI initiatives from pilots to scaled business impact. (Deloitte Engineering)

• Sovereign AI Landing Zone

  This Sovereign AI Landing Zone (SAIL) repository provides a secure foundation for deploying AI models within Canada’s borders on Azure, so organizations can build, scale, and innovate while maintaining the highest standards of privacy and compliance (GitHub)

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Digital & App Innovation Workloads

What’s new?

🚀 GitHub Copilot Agents Dojo

📦 Build a real-world example with Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry, MCP, and Aspire

📊 Measuring actual AI Impact for Engineering with Apache DevLake

Deep links

• GitHub Copilot Agents Dojo: Hands-on dojo resources for building modular skills for GitHub Copilot agents. (GitHub)
• Build a real-world example with Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry, MCP and Aspire: Demonstrates how to build a real-world example using Microsoft Agent Framework, Foundry, MCP, and Aspire. (Microsoft Developer Blog)
• Measuring actual AI Impact for Engineering with Apache DevLake: Guidance on measuring the real impact of AI for engineering workflows using Apache DevLake. (Microsoft DevBlogs)

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Security Workloads

What’s new?

• 🤖 Everything you need to know about Microsoft Agent 365
• 🔍 Agent 365 - Discoverable, governed and secure agents
• 🛡️ Agent 365 - Identity, Observability, and Interoperability
• 🏢 Agent 365 - Security and Governance
• 🚦 Agent 365 - Access Control for Agents

Deep links

• Everything you need to know about Microsoft Agent 365: Introduction to Agent 365, the control plane for managing and securing AI agents at scale, integrated with Microsoft 365 admin and security tools. (Power CAT)
• Agent 365 - Discoverable, governed and secure agents: Overview of the Agent 365 agent registry supporting discoverability and governance capabilities for AI agents. (Power CAT)
• Agent 365 - Identity, Observability, and Interoperability: Walkthrough of Agent 365 as Microsoft’s control plane for secure, scalable AI agent management. (Power CAT)
• Agent 365 - Security and Governance: Exploration of Agent 365’s integration with Microsoft Admin Center, ENTRA, Purview, and Defender for enhanced visibility, lifecycle management, data protection, and real-time defense for AI agents. (Power CAT)
• Agent 365 - Access Control for Agents: Details on Agent 365 access control capabilities, including review, publish, block, reassign agents, governance automation, and integration for security and compliance. (Power CAT)

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Azure Workloads

What’s new?

• 🚀 Bicep Azure Verified Modules for Platform Landing Zone

Deep links

• Bicep Azure Verified Modules for Platform Landing Zone: Azure Verified Modules (AVM) introduce a standardized approach to Infrastructure as Code across Microsoft’s ecosystem, ensuring consistency, testing rigor, and clear contributor guidelines. The Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) Bicep implementation now uses AVM exclusively. (Tech Community)

No other workload changes detected in the provided commit.

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Azure Workloads

What’s new?

• 🚀 The Partner Opportunity For Microsoft’s Skilling And Enablement Program
• 🤖 AI for IT/Ops workshop
• 🛡️ Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected

Deep links

• The Partner Opportunity For Microsoft’s Skilling And Enablement Program: Detailed study on the financial potential and ROI for partners through Microsoft skilling and enablement programs. (Forrester 2026)
• AI for IT/Ops workshop: A workshop providing IT professionals with hands-on guidance for managing and deploying AI-enabled applications in Azure, covering identity, networking, and monitoring. (GitHub)
• Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected: Announcement of enhanced features for Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, including disconnected operation capabilities and expanded AI model support in sovereign private environments. (Microsoft Blog)

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Microsoft 365 Workloads

What’s new?

• 🤖 Copilot Developer Camp: Self-paced resource to help build agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• 🚀 Accelerating Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption with Automated Readiness Assessment: Playbook for partners to guide customers through Copilot adoption.

Deep links

• Copilot Developer Camp: Copilot Developer Camp is a self-paced learning resource, designed to help you build agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. It provides practical guidance and real-world examples to support your development journey. (Copilot Camp)
• Accelerating Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption with Automated Readiness Assessment: This playbook supports Microsoft partners in helping customers through the adoption journey of Microsoft 365 Copilot using an automated readiness assessment. (Tech Community)

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Power Platform Workloads

What’s new?

• 📚 Agent Cost Management (e-book)
• 🏗️ Architecting agent solutions: Copilot Studio Principles and patterns
• 📝 Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance documentation
• ⚙️ The Custom Engine
• 🚀 copilot-alm-starter (ALM Starter Kit Repository)

Deep links

• Agent Cost Management (e-book): Explains the full lifecycle of agent cost management, covering estimation, billing setup, tracking, forecasting, and active cost control. (Microsoft)
• Architecting agent solutions: Copilot Studio Principles and patterns: Provides guidance for architecting agents using established patterns and best practices. (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance documentation: Offers best practices, implementation, and architecture guidance from experts supporting enterprise customers. (Microsoft)
• The Custom Engine: Features technical examples and best practices shared by the Microsoft Copilot Studio Customer Advisory Team (CAT). (The Custom Engine)
• copilot-alm-starter: Starter kit repository offering resources for Copilot Studio ALM scenarios and automation patterns. (GitHub)

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Security Workloads

What’s new?

• 🔄 Introducing the next generation of SOC automation: Sentinel playbook generator

Deep links

• Introducing the next generation of SOC automation: Sentinel playbook generator: Announces the Sentinel playbook generator to accelerate SOC automation and playbook creation in Microsoft Sentinel. (Tech Community)

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Security Workloads

What’s new?

• 🛡️ Microsoft Data Security Index Report
• 🦾 Running OpenClaw safely: identity, isolation, and runtime risk
• 🥽 Accelerating macOS proof of concepts with Microsoft Intune
• 🏰 Microsoft Defender portal implementation guide for MSSPs

Deep links

• Microsoft Data Security Index Report: Data Security Index report’s key findings that relate to generative AI and how they are being operationalized at Microsoft. (Microsoft Security Blog)
• Running OpenClaw safely: identity, isolation, and runtime risk: This post explains the supply chain risks of self-hosted agents and provides deployment and monitoring guidance aligned with Microsoft Security controls. (Microsoft Security Blog)
• Accelerating macOS proof of concepts with Microsoft Intune: Overview of the ‘Intune my Macs’ starter kit to help partners explore recommended macOS configurations and set up proof of concepts using Microsoft Intune. (Tech Community)
• Microsoft Defender portal implementation guide for MSSPs: Comprehensive guide on implementing tenant management for Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) in the Microsoft Defender portal, from setup to advanced operational workflows. (Microsoft Learn)

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Azure Workloads

What’s new?

• 🚀 Transition an existing Azure environment to the Azure landing zone reference architecture

Deep links

• Transition an existing Azure environment to the Azure landing zone reference architecture: Recommendations to help your organization navigate changes based on your existing Azure environment that’s transitioning into the Azure landing zone reference architecture. This article describes considerations for moving resources, subscriptions, and scenarios for alignment. (Microsoft Learn)

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Data & AI Workloads

What’s new?

• 🔎 IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms
• 📈 The New Future of Work Report 2025
• 🐘 Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users
• 🤖 AI Agents for Beginners - A Curriculum
• 🎙️ Engineering a Local-First Agentic Podcast Studio

Deep links

• IDC MarketScape for Unified AI Governance Platforms: Microsoft recognized as a Leader for 2025-2026, underscoring its commitment to safe and responsible enterprise AI through end-to-end unified governance. (IDC)
• The New Future of Work Report 2025: Research exploring the impact of AI on communication, collaboration, and productivity in the workplace, with recommendations for building a future-ready workforce. (Microsoft Research)
• Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users: OpenAI shares how Azure PostgreSQL flexible server scales to millions of queries per second for hundreds of millions of global ChatGPT users—architecture, optimization, and best practices. (OpenAI Engineering)
• AI Agents for Beginners - A Curriculum: A 12+ lesson course covering foundational and advanced topics in building AI agents, with practical code examples using Microsoft technologies. (GitHub)
• Engineering a Local-First Agentic Podcast Studio: Deep dive into multi-agent orchestration using Microsoft Agent Framework and local SLMs, with privacy-focused edge deployment scenarios. (Tech Community)

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Digital Apps and Innovation Workloads

What’s new?

• 🚀 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms

Deep links

• Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms: Microsoft is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Application Development Platforms, and is positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision. Microsoft Foundry is presented as the unified platform for building, deploying, and governing AI applications. (Gartner 2025)

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Power Platform Workloads

What’s new?

• 🧑‍💻 Architecting agent solutions: Principles and patterns

Deep links

• Architecting agent solutions: Principles and patterns: Guidance for architecting agents using established patterns and best practices, covering fit for purpose, operability, trust and transparency, and search and tool use architectures. (Microsoft Learn)

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Security Workloads

What’s new?

• 🛡️ SFI Patterns and Practices Library: Actionable security guidance aligned to the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) pillars
• 🤖 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense: Microsoft recognized as a leader in AI defense and governance

Deep links

• SFI Patterns and Practices Library: Explore actionable security patterns and practices to scale securely, organized under six SFI security pillars. (Microsoft Trust Center)
• KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Generative AI Defense: Microsoft earns recognition as an overall leader for enterprise-grade AI security and governance. (Microsoft Tech Community)

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Azure Workloads

What’s new?

• 🤖 Adaptive cloud: new options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure
• 💻 Foundry Local: On-device AI model inference with complete data privacy

Deep links

• Adaptive cloud: New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure: Highlights new Azure offerings such as Azure Local, Azure Arc, Microsoft 365 Local, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, Azure Migrate support, Disconnected operations, Azure Arc site manager, and GCP connector (Preview) for managing Google Cloud resources within Azure. (Microsoft Azure Blog)
• Foundry Local: Provides local AI model inference with comprehensive data privacy and does not require an Azure subscription. (foundrylocal.ai)

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Data & AI Workloads

What’s new?

• 🤖 Foundry Local: Run AI models locally with full data privacy, no Azure subscription required.
• 📈 The State of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation overview from McKinsey.

Deep links

• Foundry Local: Run AI models on your device with complete data privacy. No Azure subscription required. (foundrylocal.ai)
• The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation: The latest McKinsey Global Survey provides insights on the adoption and challenges of AI, including the rise of agentic AI and the shifting landscape from pilots to production. (McKinsey)

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Azure Workloads

What’s new?

• 🤖 Inside Microsoft’s AI transformation across the software lifecycle
• 🤖 Deploy a RAG chatbot app using Radius
• 🚀 Radius: a new open-source application platform for the cloud

Deep links

• Inside Microsoft’s AI transformation across the software lifecycle: Learn how AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure are empowering developers to innovate faster and more securely. Gain practical insights and strategies from Microsoft’s journey to empower your own DevOps transformation. (YouTube
• Deploy a RAG chatbot app using Radius: This demo illustrates how Radius simplifies the deployment and governance of intelligent applications across multiple environments, as presented at Microsoft Ignite. (Radius Blog)- Radius: Radius is an open-source project that supports deploying applications across private cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, with more cloud providers to come. (GitHub)
• Radius: a new open-source application platform for the cloud: Announcement and overview of Radius, a platform to help developers and platform engineers deploy and manage cloud-native apps following best practices by default. (Microsoft Ignite)

No updates detected for Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Security, Dynamics 365, or Industry Solutions workloads in this update batch.

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Microsoft 365 Workloads

What’s new?

✨: Introducing Project Opal—A New Way to Get Task-Based Work Done

Deep links

• Introducing Project Opal: A New Way to Get Task-Based Work Done: Introducing Project Opal in Microsoft 365 Copilot—a new AI-powered capability that executes task-based work within a secure, observable environment you control. (Tech Community)

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See the Book of News on how agentic capabilities are enabling partners to unlock customer value and ambition through Microsoft AI Business Solutions, Cloud and AI Platform, and Security*

What’s Frontier?

• 2025: The Year the Frontier Firm is Born: Analysis on new organizational models in the AI era. (Microsoft Work Trend Index)
• AI Strategy Roadmap: Framework for achieving organizational AI readiness. (Microsoft)
• AI Decision Brief: Key strategies for embracing generative AI. (Microsoft)
• The Business Guide to AI Solutions: E-book for evaluating and selecting AI solutions. (Microsoft)
• AI Use Cases for Business Leaders: Realize Value with AI: Real-world generative AI use cases across industries. (Microsoft)

• Drive your business forward with proven AI use cases

  Explore real-world use cases to help you accelerate your business goals in the AI era. (Microsoft)

• Create an AI Learning Culture: Steps and tips to nurture AI talent and culture. (Microsoft)
• 10 best practices to accelerate your employees’ AI skills: Insights and examples for successful team upskilling. (Microsoft)
• Grow Your Business with AI You Can Trust: E-book for leaders to tap AI’s value securely. (Microsoft)

Data and AI Workloads

What’s new

• 🧭 Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use
• 🕹️ Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks
• 🔗 AG-UI Integration with Agent Framework
• ⚙️ CopilotKit

Deep links

• Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use: Efficient SLM for secure, local device AI. (Microsoft Research)
• Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks: Agentic approach for orchestrating and delegating AI tasks. (Microsoft Research)- AG-UI Integration with Agent Framework: Connect agents to web clients seamlessly. (Microsoft Learn)- CopilotKit: Open source, agentic AI application framework and tools. (Copilotkit.ai)

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Digital and App Innovation Workloads

What’s new

• ✨ Awesome GitHub Copilot

Deep links

• Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations: A community-created collection designed to help users maximize productivity with GitHub Copilot through customizations for different use cases. (GitHub)

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Data and AI Workloads

What’s new

• ⚡ Agent Lightning
• 🧱 CAIRA (Composable AI Reference Architecture)
• 🧠 Amplifier: Metacognitive AI Development

• 🌍 Measuring AI Diffusion

• Deep links

• Agent Lightning: A tool for developing and training AI agents with or without any preferred agent framework. (Microsoft GitHub)
• CAIRA (Composable AI Reference Architecture): Infrastructure-as-code templates for accelerating secure, observable AI deployments in Azure. (Microsoft GitHub)
• Amplifier: Metacognitive AI Development: Platform to quickly convert expertise into reusable AI tools with no code. (Microsoft GitHub)
• Measuring AI Diffusion: A Population-Normalized Metric for Tracking Global AI Usage: Report presenting a comprehensive metric of global AI usage normalized by population. (Microsoft AI for Good Lab)
• An Enterprise Design for Azure Machine Learning - An Architect’s Viewpoint: Guidelines for building an enterprise data science platform with Azure Machine Learning, aligned to best practices and MLOps. (Tech Community)

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Power Platform - Copilot Studio Workloads

What’s new

• ✨ New collection: A dedicated Copilot Studio collection has been added to Partner Crucible.
• 🎓 Copilot Studio and Azure AI Enablement Workshop
• 🚀 Copilot Developer Camp:
• 🔒 Digital Deep Dive: Copilot Control System (CCS):

Deep links

• Copilot Studio Collection: Comprehensive resource hub for building Microsoft practices leveraging Copilot Studio. (Source: Partner Crucible repository)
• Copilot Studio and Azure AI Enablement Workshop: Copilot Studio and Extensibility with Azure AI labs. (Maintained by Whowong, Source: Whowong GitHub)
• Copiot Developer Camp: Hands-on lab to design customized assistants for Microsoft 365 Copilot. (Source: Microsoft GitHub)
• Digital Deep Dive: Copilot Control System (CCS): Secure, manage, and analyze Microsoft 365 Copilot and associated agents using CCS. (Source: Microsoft Tech Community)

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Data AI Workloads - Fabric

What’s new

• 📝 Added Fabric Spark best practices overview:
• 🛠️ Introduced Fabric Toolbox:
• 💻 Launched Microsoft Fabric CLI:

Deep links

• Fabric Spark best practices overview: Comprehensive articles outlining best practices for performance, security, and cost optimization in Spark workloads on Microsoft Fabric. (Microsoft Learn)
• Fabric Toolbox: Repository containing tools, scripts, accelerators, and samples for working with Microsoft Fabric, provided by the Fabric Customer Advisory Team (CAT). (GitHub)
• Microsoft Fabric CLI: File-system-inspired command-line interface (fab) to manage and automate Microsoft Fabric environments directly from the terminal. (GitHub)

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Digital Apps and Innovation Workloads

What’s new

• 🆕 Added: Deployment Guide for Copilot Studio agent with MCP Server exposed by API Management using OAuth 2.0.

Deep links

• Deployment Guide - Copilot Studio agent with MCP Server exposed by API Management using OAuth 2.0: Solution deployment guide to learn how Azure API Management (APIM) enables secure and scalable access to MCP servers for Copilot Studio AI agents. By leveraging OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow, you can ensure enterprise-grade security for seamless integration. (Microsoft Tech Community)

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Modern Work Workloads - Copilot

What’s new

• ✨ Added the Super Usage Analysis Template (Copilot + Viva Insights)

Deep links

• Super Usage Analysis Template (Copilot + Viva Insights): Insights into how super users of Microsoft Copilot emerge and learn how to scale their success across your organization. (GitHub)

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Security Workloads

What’s New

• 🧠 Introduced a new open-source benchmarking tool
• 🕵️ Added “ExCyTIn-Bench: Evaluating LLM agents on Cyber Threat Investigation

Deep Links

• Microsoft raises the bar: A smarter way to measure AI for cybersecurity: Announcing Microsoft’s advanced tool for measuring AI effectiveness in cybersecurity use cases. (Microsoft)
• ExCyTIn-Bench: Evaluating LLM agents on Cyber Threat Investigation: Details and access to the first benchmark for assessing large language model agents in cyber threat investigations. (GitHub)

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Data and AI Workloads

What’s New

• ✨ Added the Microsoft Agent Framework

Deep links

• Microsoft Agent Framework: The Microsoft Agent Framework is a new open-source SDK and runtime, simplifying multi-agent systems orchestration and merging Microsoft Research innovation with enterprise Semantic Kernel foundations. (Microsoft Azure Blog)

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Digital and App Modernization Workloads

What’s new

• 🤖 Added “GitHub Copilot app modernization” to support .NET application migration and upgrades on Azure.
• ☕ Added “GitHub Copilot app modernization for Java developers” n with Copilot agent mode.
• 💻 Added “VSCode: GitHub Copilot app modernization” extension

Deep links

• GitHub Copilot app modernization: GitHub Copilot agent to help upgrade and migrate .NET applications to Azure with code fixes and validations. (Microsoft Learn)
• GitHub Copilot app modernization for Java developers: Copilot-guided modernization for Java projects, supporting best practices and organizational standards on Azure. (Microsoft Learn)
• VSCode: GitHub Copilot app modernization: Visual Studio Code extension for upgrading and migrating Java apps to Azure. (Visual Studio Marketplace)

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Power Platform Workloads - Copilot Studio

What’s New

• 🛡️ Introduced real-time protection in Microsoft Copilot Studio. time monitoring and control of agent behavior.

Deep Links

• Strengthen agent security with real-time protection in Microsoft Copilot Studio: This capability enhances security for AI agents by enabling organizations to connect their own monitoring systems—including Microsoft Defender, third-party platforms, or custom-built tools—for real-time evaluation and control. (Microsoft)

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Security Workloads - Copilot for Security

What’s new

• 🤖 Security Copilot Agents
• 🔄 Automate cybersecurity at scale with Security Copilot agents
• 🛠️ Agentic security your way: Build your own Security Copilot agents for tailored workflows

Deep links

• Automate cybersecurity at scale with Microsoft Security Copilot agents: AI-powered agents represent the natural evolution of Security Copilot, going beyond AI assistant capabilities. They autonomously manage high-volume security and IT tasks, seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Security solutions and partner solutions (Tech Community)
• Agentic security your way: Build your own Security Copilot agents : Building your own Security Copilot agents for tailored workflows, expanding the agent ecosystem with new Microsoft and partner solutions, and improving agent quality and performance. (Tech Community)

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Digital & App Innovation

What’s new

• 🏆 Added Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants report from Gartner
• 💬 Introduced Build Agent2Agent Communication on MCP
• ⚡️ Added information on GitHub Copilot CLI (Public Preview) for AI-powered command line code assistance.
• 🛠️ GitHub Spec Kit and related guides.
• 📹 Video guides by Den Delimarsky, covering both GitHub Spec Kit and the integration with GitHub Copilot CLI.

Deep links

• Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants: GitHub remains a Leader, emphasizing Copilot’s impact on developer productivity. (Gartner)
• IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI Coding and Software Engineering Technologies 2025: GitHub recognized as a leader in AI coding and software engineering. (IDC)
• Build Agent2Agent Communication on MCP: Guidance on implementing agent-to-agent communication using MCP. (Microsoft Developer Blog)
• GitHub Copilot CLI (Public Preview): AI-powered, natural language coding assistant for the command line. (GitHub)
• GitHub Spec Kit: Enables executable, specification-driven development. (GitHub)
• GitHub Spec Kit - Guide: Den Delimarsky walkthrough of Spec Kit and using it to build/evolve projects. (YouTube)
• GitHub Spec Kit 💖 GitHub Copilot CLI: Den Delimarsky explains integrating Copilot CLI with Spec Kit for spec-driven development. (YouTube)

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Power Platform Workloads

What’s new

• 🏆 Added Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Platforms for Professional Developers, Q2 2025.

Deep links

• The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Platforms for Professional Developers (2025): Highlights Microsoft’s leadership in low-code platforms, assessed as best-in-class for strategy and offering. (Microsoft Official Blog)

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