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Shawn Henry shares a short overview of Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) and points to a deeper design write-up on how the SDK is structured for building production-ready agents, including core concepts like agent loops, workflows, and harnesses.

Natalie Guevara explains how to define and run custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI so repeated terminal tasks become consistent, reviewable workflows. The article shows how agent profiles live in your repo, and includes practical examples for security audits, IaC compliance checks, release notes drafting, and incident response.

Dan Hellem and Andrew Brenner announce a limited public preview that brings GitHub Copilot code reviews into Azure Repos pull requests, and walk through how to enable it at the organization, repository, and user levels. The post also documents preview guardrails and how token usage is billed via GitHub AI credits to Azure Cost Management.

David Williams-Young and Stefan Wernli walk through the March 2026 release highlights for the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK), covering new capabilities like improved program composability and expanded QDK Chemistry support for a broader family of model Hamiltonians.

Bill Ticehurst shows how GitHub Copilot in VS Code can speed up learning and day-to-day work with the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK), focusing on practical workflows for building, debugging, and running quantum programs so you can iterate faster.

GitHub shows a couple of practical ways to undo an accidental commit, depending on whether you already pushed the change or not.

Rafia_Aqil outlines a reference architecture for ingesting both streaming and batch data through Microsoft Fabric into Azure Databricks, using OneLake/ADLS and a medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) layout. The post breaks down five Fabric-to-Databricks integration paths and calls out security, governance, and monitoring considerations.

brauerblogs announces a two-day “Path to Production for Agents” webinar series (July 27–28) focused on moving agentic AI from prototypes to production, covering governance, landing-zone architecture, AgentOps practices, security risks like prompt injection, and cost/performance optimization with Azure Monitor and Microsoft Foundry.

BhaktiRath95 walks through common startup and deployment failures in Azure Container Apps and Container App Jobs for .NET and Django workloads, showing what the errors look like in logs, why they happen, and the concrete CLI, configuration, and code changes that fix them.

Allison announces an update to GitHub code scanning that lets organizations keep security coverage on inactive repositories by running scheduled scans when there have been no pushes or pull requests for six months or more.

Allison announces that GitHub’s security validation for third-party coding agents is now generally available, bringing the same automated checks used for the GitHub Copilot cloud agent to agent-generated pull requests.

Anush Elangovan explains how AMD ROCm and Microsoft enable building and optimizing AI workloads across client devices, cloud, and on-prem environments, with an emphasis on portability and performance across different AMD hardware targets.

Mayunk Jain summarizes the Azure App Service announcements from Microsoft Build 2026, including a new “Easy AI experience” with built-in MCP, GA of Isolated v4 for App Service Environments, and Managed Instance improvements for modernizing legacy apps (including IIS) with better diagnostics and deployment workflows.

Jon Galloway recaps Microsoft Build 2026 with the main developer announcements across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, Azure, Windows, Visual Studio, and .NET—highlighting agentic workflows, new tooling, governance specs, and a curated set of sessions and hubs to follow up on what shipped.

sunayanasingh explains how Azure Monitor now supports exemplars so teams can jump from Prometheus/OpenTelemetry metric spikes to the exact OpenTelemetry trace in Application Insights, using Azure Managed Grafana for visualization and trace linking.

Daniel Roth rounds up the key .NET sessions from Microsoft Build 2026, highlighting what’s new in .NET 11 and C# (including union types), plus sessions on agentic web apps, AI building blocks for .NET, .NET MAUI on-device AI, and tooling like dotnetup.

Allison announces general availability of IP allow list enforcement for GitHub Enterprise Cloud Enterprise Managed Users (EMUs), extending enterprise network access policies to repositories owned under EMU user namespaces and covering web, Git, and API access.

Soo Stahl and Bhuvan Shah announce Enterprise Live Migrations (ELM), a limited public preview feature for moving repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub with continuous sync and a short, scheduled cutover window to minimize downtime for enterprise teams.

Johnson Shi provides an operational guide to running a geo-replicated Azure Container Registry (ACR) for high availability, explaining how global endpoints, regional endpoints, and dedicated data endpoints behave during incidents, throttling, and DNS changes, with concrete Azure CLI steps for setup, routing control, and troubleshooting.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence and the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team break down recent phishing and malvertising campaigns that abuse popular AI brands (including ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Microsoft Copilot) as lures, and provide concrete mitigation steps using Microsoft Defender, Entra ID, and related security controls.

Sharlkaur introduces a preview workflow for AI-authored Power BI reports in Microsoft Fabric, using Skills for Fabric and the Power BI authoring plugin optimized for GitHub Copilot CLI. The post shows how agents can generate PBIR-based reports from prompts, iterate using screenshots, and publish to Fabric as part of an end-to-end agentic analytics flow.

Natalie Guevara answers common beginner GitHub questions, including how to set up SSH keys, create personal access tokens (fine-grained and classic), resolve merge conflicts, undo commits, sync forks, and review pull requests—plus a quick look at using GitHub Copilot for code review in PRs.

GitHub engineers answer common beginner questions, including how to authenticate to GitHub with SSH keys or a personal access token (PAT), when to merge vs rebase, how to resolve merge conflicts, how to sync a fork, and how to review a pull request.

Matt Bierner and Reynald Adolphe walk through recent improvements to the Markdown preview experience in Visual Studio Code, focused on reviewing documentation changes more effectively and catching broken links and references while editing.

shashankamalladi announces General Availability of Network Security Perimeter (NSP) support for Azure Service Bus, including availability in Azure Government regions. The post explains how NSP provides a centralized security boundary with default-deny communication, explicit inbound/outbound rules, and diagnostic logging for audit and compliance.

John Savill explains how Microsoft Entra ID’s passkey registration campaign works, why passkeys are useful, and how the campaign “nudges” users to register. He also covers the policy prerequisites and the key behaviors that determine when users see registration prompts.

John Savill's Technical Training gives a quick overview of a passkey registration campaign in Microsoft Entra ID, focusing on driving user enrollment for passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication.

Visual Studio Code hosts the final Agents League challenge, where experts build business-ready knowledge agents integrated with Microsoft 365 and authored in Copilot Studio, and the audience is sent into a last sprint before the hackathon closes on June 14.

Visual Studio Code hosts an Agents League session where experts demonstrate building reasoning-based AI agents with Microsoft Foundry, focused on solving complex problems and helping participants apply the approach in their hackathon submissions.

Visual Studio Code kicks off the Agents League with a creative app-building battle, where experts demonstrate AI-assisted development using GitHub Copilot and share ideas participants can apply to their own hackathon submissions.

jordanselig announces a public preview feature that lets Azure App Service expose an existing REST API as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using only an OpenAPI spec. The post covers how the platform generates MCP tools, how to configure it, and what to consider for authentication and safe exposure.

shiv_narayanan announces general availability of SharePoint and OneDrive Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric OneLake, explaining how Fabric can reference Microsoft 365 files in place, optionally transform supported formats into Delta tables, and use Entra ID-based identities for production authentication and scale.

John Edward outlines practical ALM and environment strategy guidance for Microsoft Copilot Studio, focusing on how to run copilots like enterprise applications with multi-environment setups, solution-based development, source control, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, governance, and ongoing monitoring.

Sally Dabbah explains how to turn Synapse/ADF/Microsoft Fabric pipeline failures into structured, queryable telemetry by sending standardized failure events into Azure Monitor Log Analytics via the Logs Ingestion API and a Data Collection Rule, enabling KQL-based analysis, alerting, and reliability reporting across environments and datasets.

Hidde de Smet compares the GitHub Copilot App and the VS Code Agents Window, focusing on how each surface supports agent-first workflows: isolated sessions, worktrees, review/CI loops, and customization via MCP and instruction files. It includes a practical “which one should you use?” decision guide for day-to-day development vs delegated work.

This week's AI roundup focuses on Microsoft Foundry's shift from a model catalog to an end-to-end platform for building, operating, and distributing enterprise agents. Build 2026 updates centered on a repeatable operations loop (traces, evaluations, routing, and tuning), production-ready hosted agents with more reliable memory controls, and tool connectivity that scales through Toolboxes and managed MCP servers. On the grounding side, Foundry IQ expanded retrieval and connectors, while Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot publishing (plus Entra ID-backed A2A endpoints) moved agent deployment closer to where work actually happens.

This week in ML, Microsoft Fabric moved closer to an agent-ready analytics platform, with new ways to ship backends into Fabric, ground agents in governed context, and model relationships directly on OneLake. Rayfin positions Fabric as a default deployment target for data-powered apps, while Fabric IQ (now GA) and its ontology support aim to standardize how agents request context with permissions and auditability built in. Graph in Fabric (GA) adds GQL-based relationship querying, and the Fabric Operations agent plus Fabric Skills show how Microsoft wants teams to monitor, automate, and code against Fabric with guardrails instead of one-off scripts.

anandranjan explains a practical AKS pattern for keeping secret values out of YAML and CI/CD by using Azure Key Vault with the Secrets Store CSI Driver and AKS Workload Identity. It covers the identity flow, required AKS/Azure setup, workload onboarding YAML, and common troubleshooting points around federation, labels, mounts, and permissions.

This week, GitHub and Microsoft positioned Copilot as part of an enterprise agent platform, where identity, tool access, policy, observability, and eval loops matter as much as model output. Copilot also moved further into resource management, with model deprecations and replacements, optional Gemini models via admin policy, 1M-token context and reasoning controls, and fully live usage-based billing tied to GitHub AI Credits (plus new cost signals for code review and Actions). Inside GitHub, agentic workflows expanded with richer PR context for Copilot Chat, configurable code review tiers and MCP-backed skills, Azure Repos review previews, and Marketplace-installed agent apps. The rest of the updates fill in the execution and governance layer (CLI scheduling and rubber-duck review, sandboxes, a cloud agent tasks API, the Copilot SDK GA, and tighter enterprise controls across VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and Eclipse).

This week in DevOps, agentic workflows moved from demos to platforms you can standardize, version, and roll out, with new GitHub Copilot and agent app surfaces, deeper PR-integrated review, and APIs that let other systems trigger governed agent tasks. Security teams also got a clearer warning label as prompt injection and a large npm campaign showed how agent tools and CI publishing flows can be abused, reinforcing least privilege, pinning, and explicit approval boundaries. On the operations side, direct OTLP ingestion into Azure Monitor reached GA and agent-focused observability views expanded, making trace-first debugging and cost visibility more practical as AI credits and usage-based billing become day-to-day concerns.