On 3 November 2026, the memberOf operator in Microsoft Entra dynamic membership groups stops working. Nothing errors. Nothing breaks loudly. Every dynamic group, dynamic administrative unit and entitlement management auto-assignment policy that uses it simply freezes in its last known state the people who should be added are not added, and the people wh…

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of Microsoft Entra news from around the globe 🌍.

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

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When I evaluate Microsoft Corporation today, I see an enterprise undergoing one of the most significant physical and operational transformations in corporate history. Over the past thirteen years, under the leadership of Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has systematically transformed itself from an asset-light enterprise software provider into …

Passkeys are phishing-resistant. But that resistance is enforced by your browser, which binds every authentication to the origin that requested it. Skip the browser, and the guarantee weakens.

Enforcing WAM for Interactive Microsoft Graph Sessions

Everyone wants to know what AI agents can do. The harder question — the one that decides whether any of it survives contact with the enterprise — is who they work for.

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On September 8, Open Future Forum is bringing its enterprise AI community to Microsoft’s campus in Mountain View.

Microsoft starts making passkeys the default in Microsoft Entra ID on 1 September 2026, and retires Microsoft-provided SMS and voice MFA on 1 February 2027. Every organisation with a large, messy population now has to answer a question that has nothing to do with passkey technology itself: how do you move a hundred thousand real people - office workers,…

This AI Workflow Story features Jose Antonio Morales, who is a 53-year-old community builder who also runs two newsletters: Growing Fearless is an Adventure and Automato: Smarter Work in the Age of AI.

👋 Hi folks, the Microsoft AI weekly is back after a short hiatus. I started this newsletter just a couple of weeks before I left Microsoft but promptly ran out of time to do justice to this.

#SaudiArabia #lEAP5 - Microsoft has confirmed its Saudi Arabia East datacentre region will go live in November 2026, delivering local cloud and AI infrastructure to the Kingdom. Located in the Eastern Province and featuring three Azure Availability Zones, the new facility will give government and enterprise clients high-availability acce…

The bottleneck in the AI buildout is becoming increasingly clear: power.

Good afternoon from the team at Press Gazette on Thursday, 27 August.

#SaudiArabia #Arabic - Saudi Arabia’s national AI company HUMAIN has announced the first milestone in a long-term strategic collaboration with Microsoft, aimed at bringing HUMAIN’s ALLaM Arabic language models into Microsoft Foundry and the M365 Copilot

Bonjour à tous, je suis Antoine Wang.

Bonjour à tous, je suis Antoine Wang.

Agentic AI governance is becoming a regular part of my conversations with large enterprises and Microsoft features in almost all of them. This is not surprising given that Microsoft is so deeply embedded in enterprise IT architecture. It is now extending its position into agentic AI with a growing set of capabilities for discovering, securing and govern…

Microsoft has issued guidance urging enterprises to adopt network-level containment strategies as the window between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation continues to shrink. Igor Sakhnov…

Hardcoded values are the “cockroaches” of a data platform. You think you’ve killed them all, and then you promote a pipeline to Prod and one of them again sees the light: a lakehouse GUID you forgot to swap, a connection pointing at the wrong server, a table name that was perfectly fine in Dev and is very much not fine in production.

#UAE #telecom - Telecom operator e& UAE has launched Business Pro AI, bundling faster business fibre with Microsoft Copilot at no additional cost. The new package aims to helpi small and medium-sized enterprises adopt AI without separate software licences or multiple vendors. The plan combines connectivity, productivity tools and AI assistance under a s…