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Allison announces a GitHub Copilot enterprise management update that lets admins enable automatic updates for specific plugin marketplaces via enterprise-managed settings, reducing manual maintenance while still enforcing marketplace allowlisting.

Authorised Territory demonstrates how to build a multi-agent AI code review workflow in .NET using Microsoft Agent Framework, coordinating specialist security, performance, and architecture reviewers via background agents. The setup runs fully locally with Ollama and adds OpenTelemetry tracing so you can see what each agent is doing during the review.

Allison announces general availability of GitHub Copilot’s global model policy for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, including how default enablement is enforced, how unconfigured models inherit policy state, and which model types are excluded from default enablement due to open-weight or data-retention constraints.

Microsoft Developer shares a quick news update covering Agent Optimizer in Microsoft Foundry, the GA release of Agent Plugins 1.0 across multiple Copilot surfaces, and a timeline note that Claude Sonnet 4.6 will leave most GitHub Copilot experiences on September 1.

Microsoft Developer announces MCP Live on Sept 9th, with agenda and event details available via the official link and streaming on the Microsoft Developer and VS Code YouTube channels.

Christopher Harrison shows how to use GitHub Copilot app automations to triage Dependabot pull requests on a schedule, so teams can quickly separate low-risk updates from changes that need deeper review.

Microsoft Security Research, Yash Gund and Sumith Maniath break down real-world attacks against exposed AI workloads (LiteLLM, RAGFlow, and Kestra), showing how gateways and orchestration layers become credential-rich control planes. The post maps intrusion chains, IOCs, and MITRE techniques, then provides concrete mitigations and Defender hunting queries.

murray-kp rounds up the August 2026 Microsoft Fabric updates across OneLake, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Factory, and Fabric data agents, including Git-based CI/CD improvements, Spark runtime upgrades, new security controls, and expanded AI-driven conversational analytics capabilities.

Harshada Hole introduces a new Test-Driven Investigation workflow for the Visual Studio Debugger Agent, aimed at making hard-to-reproduce bugs repeatable by capturing them in an automated test and then using that test to drive debugging, validate the fix, and check for regressions.

perirocha announces general availability of IDENTITY columns in Fabric Data Warehouse, adding IDENTITY_INSERT and reseed operations to support common migration and enterprise warehousing patterns, especially where preserving surrogate key values is required across dimension and fact tables.

Steve Sweetman breaks down four practical levers in Microsoft Foundry for reducing the cost of agentic AI in production: routing each request to the right model, caching repeated prompt content, optimizing prompts and agent configurations, and using observability plus evaluation to measure cost per outcome.

atiy explains Traffic Manager linked records, a public preview feature that lets Azure DNS return Traffic Manager-selected A/AAAA answers directly (without an intermediate trafficmanager.net CNAME). The post walks through a small multi-region lab, portal configuration steps, DNS query validation, and a simple failover test to prove the record stays health-aware.

Dan Hellem announces the public preview of GitHub Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos and explains what’s changed since the technical preview, including new onboarding controls, support for Managed DevOps Pools, custom review instructions, automatic reviews via branch policies, and improved Azure Cost Management visibility.

Eduard van Valkenburg introduces “channels” in Microsoft Agent Framework for Python, showing how to expose the same agent or workflow through multiple interfaces like OpenAI Responses, Telegram, A2A, and MCP while keeping routing, auth, storage, and deployment under application control.

The Visual Studio Code Team shares a small update for the VS Code 1.136 Insiders release notes, highlighting a UI change in VS Code Chat where the Artifacts pill icon now uses a package symbol to better represent generated outputs from the current session.

Visual Studio Code shows how to use VS Code’s Test Explorer to quickly filter tests, locate a failing test from CI, debug the failure, inspect results, and rerun the test without leaving the editor.

Allison announces a GitHub Enterprise Cloud update that lets enterprise owners grant GitHub Apps permission to access enterprise billing data via installation access tokens, avoiding reliance on a single owner’s personal access token and enabling higher API rate limits for billing-related workflows.

John Naguib explains a Copilot Studio billing change taking effect on September 1, 2026: existing agents and workflows built with the GitHub Copilot harness will start consuming Copilot Credits. The post breaks down what’s affected, how credit consumption works (authoring vs runtime), and what admins can review in PPAC to avoid cost surprises.

demiajayi announces new Azure Cost Management capabilities in the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) MCP server, including default cost and pricing tools plus an optional CostManagement toolset. The post shows how to enable the toolset for GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and Copilot CLI, and what scenarios the tools support.

Rob Lourens, Connor Peet, and Brigit Murtaugh introduce VS Code’s Agent Host and the open Agent Host Protocol (AHP), which let agent sessions persist beyond a single editor window, stay synchronized across clients, and run locally or remotely. The post explains the architecture, protocol model, and how to build your own AHP client.

Sherry Xu, Prashant Ranjan, and Torsten Hoefler explain how Azure Maia 200 targets efficient, predictable large-scale AI inference by making data movement explicit (SDLA) and extending that approach across an all-Ethernet scale-up network, with performance discussion across realistic matmul and collective-communication workloads.

Mariko Wakabayashi shares practical lessons from evaluating an LLM-based system to reduce false positives in GitHub secret scanning, focusing on how to define success metrics, keep offline evaluation close to production, and use error analysis and human review to manage security risk.

XinXin announces the retirement timeline for Microsoft HPC Pack and explains what support will (and won’t) be available through end of support. The post also points customers to Azure Batch as Microsoft’s supported managed platform for running HPC and parallel workloads going forward.

Allison announces general availability of GitHub’s rule insights dashboard at both repository and organization levels, giving teams a clearer way to review ruleset evaluations, track bypass activity, and export CSV data for governance and compliance reporting.

Allison announces general availability of the new Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app, which centralizes MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases so teams can discover and apply Copilot customizations more easily, including featured options and faster browsing of trending MCP servers.

Allison announces an update to GitHub Security Advisories that lets repository owners and org moderators block abusive or spammy users directly from an advisory page, without navigating to separate settings pages.

Ahmed Khaled shows how to track Azure Batch node state changes at per-node granularity by polling the Batch REST API and ingesting snapshots into a Log Analytics custom table, then using KQL to calculate time-in-state and trigger Azure Monitor alerts only when nodes are stuck or unhealthy.

mk_sunitha announces a preview feature for Fabric Apps that enables anonymous (no sign-in) access to selected data and operations, aimed at building public-facing experiences while keeping tight administrative and data-model controls in place.

Allison announces a GitHub rulesets update that adds path exceptions for push rules, letting teams enforce repository policies while carving out narrowly-scoped file path exemptions.

Jiri Cincura explains how to get started contributing to Entity Framework Core, including where to begin, how to build the repo locally, how the codebase is structured, and how the test setup works.

Jon Galloway announces .NET Conf 2026 (Nov 10–12), a free online event aligned with the .NET 11 launch, and points readers to current previews and related deep dives across the runtime, SDK, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, MAUI, and C# 15.

Rafia Aqil (co-authored with Sanjeev Nair) lays out a three-phase, practical approach to reducing Azure Databricks spend: first getting visibility into where DBUs and cloud costs go, then tightening cluster and code practices, and finally setting up ongoing cost observability with Unity Catalog system tables, tagging, dashboards, and budgets.

Anna Hoffman introduces the Azure SQL Database Foundations series: four videos (with companion repos) that walk developers through getting started with Hyperscale, migrating and optimizing existing databases, scaling for performance, and adding AI features like vector search and RAG directly on operational data.

Igor Sakhnov argues that the time between vulnerability disclosure and real-world exploitation has shrunk to hours, leaving many organizations unable to patch fast enough. He outlines why “exposure reduction” needs to complement traditional vulnerability management, and why network-enforced controls are emerging as the fastest way to contain risk while remediation is still in progress.

Mark Downie highlights the Visual Studio August update, focusing on new GitHub Copilot controls (model “thinking effort”, org-wide custom agents, and in-IDE usage visibility) plus Git tooling improvements that make it easier to work across multiple branches and repositories.

GitHub shows how the GitHub Copilot app’s built-in diff, terminal, and browser panels help you review and validate AI agent-made changes without constantly switching tools, so you can keep a tighter loop before accepting code updates.

Cary Chai announces general availability of VNet integration for Azure SRE Agent and explains how it routes outbound agent traffic through your virtual network so you can reach private endpoints while still enforcing existing routes, NSG rules, firewall policies, private DNS, and network logging.

Nir Mashkowski announces a 30-day trial for Azure SRE Agent that removes baseline always-on charges during setup, plus GA VNet integration and a public preview of Live Reports for building repeatable operational views that refresh with live data from connected systems.

yashnisar introduces Live Reports in Azure SRE Agent (public preview), a way for ops teams to describe an operational dashboard in chat and have the agent generate a deterministic page that refreshes live data on each open. The post explains token-cost behavior, connector/tool-call mechanics, and the guardrails used to keep report execution constrained.

Kayla Cinnamon walks through VS Code’s updated Markdown editing workflow, including side-by-side preview with live updates and a new editor that lets you edit directly in the preview while the Markdown syntax updates in real time. She also shows handing Markdown cleanup to an agent using an isolated worktree.