AVD What's New: RDP Multipath for macOS and Gov Cloud
Connection resiliency is the quiet theme of the September 2026 Azure Virtual Desktop update. Three new entries landed on Microsoft’s …
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Windows 365 Weekly: RDP Multipath Lands in Azure Government
Two connection-resiliency updates landed in the Week of September 14, 2026, and they are really one story: keeping Cloud PC sessions alive when the …
Windows 365 Weekly: Admin Insights Reaches GA
Admin Insights for Windows 365 is now generally available (Week of September 7, 2026). After arriving in public preview in May 2026, the …
Windows 365 Weekly: Enable Local Admin in Cloud PC Configs
This week’s Windows 365 What’s New update is a small change with real operational weight. The Enable local admin setting is now available …
AVD What's New: Display Protection for Azure Virtual Desktop
Microsoft keeps raising the security bar for cloud-delivered Windows, and the September 2026 Azure Virtual Desktop update adds a significant new …
Windows 365 Weekly: Display Protection in Public Preview
This week’s Windows 365 What’s New update is a security-focused one. Display Protection for Windows 365 is now available in public preview …
Entra ID What's New: SSPR Enforcement, Passkey Campaigns, SCIM
Microsoft Entra ID’s first week of September 2026 delivered a mix of enforcement, documentation, and domain consolidation. The biggest item is …
AVD What's New: Pin RemoteApp Shortcuts to Local Desktops
Microsoft has quietly been making Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApps feel more like local applications, and the latest step is a big one. A new public …
AVD What's New: Windows Update Management Guidance for Session Hosts
Managing Windows updates on Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts has always been one of those topics where everyone has an opinion but nobody could …
Windows 365 Weekly: RemoteApp Desktop Pinning, Cloud Apps GA
Two updates on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week focus on improving how users access remote applications. First, RemoteApp shortcuts can …
AVD What's New: Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid Reaches General Availability
Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid has reached general availability, and it fundamentally changes the migration math for organizations sitting on legacy VDI …
Entra ID What's New: Access Reviews GA, Passwordless Teams
Microsoft Entra ID opened September 2026 with one of the largest monthly updates of the year — two generally available governance features, a broader …
Windows 365 Weekly: Citrix DPP Gov GA, Reserve CMK
Two general-availability announcements landed on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week, and both close important gaps for specific Windows …
Entra ID What's New: B2B Passkeys, Defender XDR Identity, Cloud Sync Reverse
Microsoft Entra ID closed out August 2026 with a final batch of updates that span the full identity stack — from external collaboration security to …
Entra ID What's New: Linux Broker 2.0.2, Cloud Sync AD Provisioning, GSA Auto-Update
Microsoft Entra ID’s final week of August 2026 brought a batch of updates that may not have the drama of a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability, but matter …
Windows 365 Weekly: Autopilot DPP Reaches Government GA
A quiet but important update appeared on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week: Autopilot Device Preparation (DPP) has reached general …
Windows 365 Weekly: Reserve Bulk Ops Hit 1,000 Devices
A single new entry appeared on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week, and it’s a meaningful scale upgrade for organizations relying on …
Windows 365 Weekly: Reserve Autopilot GA, Display Settings
Two updates landed on the Windows 365 What’s New page this week, and both are worth paying attention to. One moves a key provisioning feature to …
AVD August 2026 Update: App Attach Now Supports Multiple User Configuration Files for App-V Packages
Azure Virtual Desktop’s August 2026 updates continue to roll in, and the latest addition is a significant one for organizations navigating the …
Windows 365 Developer Configuration Image Now Includes Microsoft 365 Apps
Microsoft has added another piece to the Windows 365 Developer Configuration puzzle. As of the week of August 24, 2026, the Windows 11 Enterprise …
Microsoft Entra Late August 2026: Azure DevOps MCP Server GA Exposes Entra ID Authentication Gap, CVE-2026-69836 Status Finalized
Microsoft Entra’s August 2026 release wave entered its final week with two updates that, on the surface, seem unrelated but actually share a …
Microsoft Entra Late August 2026: External ID Passkey APIs, GSA macOS Update, and Token Protection Reaches Apple GA
Microsoft Entra’s August 2026 release wave continues with a set of documentation and capability updates from August 20-22 that refine and …
Microsoft Entra ID August 22, 2026: CVE-2026-69836 Exploitation Status Corrected, B2B Passkeys Confirmed for October, Multi-Tenant Agent Management Hits Preview
Yesterday’s headline about a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Entra ID traveled fast. Today brings an important …
Microsoft Entra ID Late August 2026: Critical Zero-Click RCE Exploited, CSS Branding Retirement Expands, WHfB Standalone MFA
This week’s Microsoft Entra ID update brings a stark reminder that even fully managed cloud identity platforms can have critical …
Microsoft Entra ID August 19 2026: GSA Web Filtering Migration Guide, GitHub FIC Immutable Claims, and Authentication Documentation Updates
The week of August 15-18, 2026, brings a set of focused documentation updates across Microsoft Entra ID. While there are no major product launches …
Microsoft Entra ID August 15 2026: SMS First-Factor Retired for Free Tenants, Workload Identity Federation Tutorials, and Agent ID Guidance Updates
The week of August 10-15, 2026, brings a coherent story across Microsoft Entra ID: authentication hardening for both humans and machines, external …
Windows 365 Developer Configuration Image Gets Intelligent Terminal and Coreutils
Microsoft quietly slipped a notable update into the Windows 365 What’s New page this week: the Windows 11 Enterprise Developer Configuration …
AVD August 2026 Updates: Passwordless macOS, Modern Auto-Reconnect Rollout, Web Screen Capture Protection, and RAW Printing
Azure Virtual Desktop’s August 2026 update is a packed one, delivering four significant new features that touch on security, connection …
Windows 365 August 2026 Updates: Passwordless Auth on macOS, Auto-Reconnect, Web Screen Capture Protection, and Admin Insights Expansion
August is bringing a fresh wave of Windows 365 updates, and this batch touches four areas that matter to IT admins: authentication, connection …
Microsoft Entra ID August 10 2026: Tenant Governance GA, Lifecycle Workflows Enhancements, and Defender AI Agent Protection
August 10, 2026, brings one of the most consequential Entra ID update days in recent memory. Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance reaches general …
Microsoft Entra ID August 9 2026: Agent ID for Dataverse, Managed Policies Review Window, and CSP Security Add-Ons
The Entra ID news cycle is in a brief calm before the September 1 passkeys-by-default storm, but Microsoft hasn’t stopped shipping. This …
Microsoft Entra ID August 8 2026: Passkeys as First MFA, MCP Firewall Preview, and Token Protection for Web Apps
Just when you thought the Entra ID news cycle might slow down before the September 1 passkeys-by-default rollout, Microsoft has dropped another batch …
Microsoft Entra ID Early August 2026: MemberOf Retirement, Passkey Adoption Campaigns, and Zero Trust VPN Replacement
August is shaping up to be a pivotal month for Microsoft Entra ID administrators. Between the looming September 1 passkeys-by-default rollout and a …
AVD Modern Auto-Reconnect: Seamless Session Recovery Powered by RDP Multipath
Network disruptions have long been one of the most frustrating aspects of remote desktop computing. A brief Wi-Fi hiccup, a VPN tunnel reset, or an …
Microsoft Entra ID August 2026: Cloud Sync Device Sync Preview, Security Group Nesting Controls, SMS Opt-Out API, and More
The first week of August 2026 delivers a packed set of Microsoft Entra ID updates that touch hybrid identity, group security, authentication …
Windows 365 Brings Autopilot Device Preparation to Citrix Cloud PCs — What IT Admins Need to Know
For organizations that deliver Windows 365 Cloud PCs through Citrix, provisioning has always had a gap. Standard Windows 365 Cloud PCs — Enterprise, …
Intune Remote Help Now Supports AVD RemoteApp Sessions
Microsoft has added a significant capability to Intune Remote Help: the ability to provide remote assistance within Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApp …
Microsoft Entra ID Late July 2026: Passkey Registration Optimizations, Tenant Governance, Kerberos RC4 Final Enforcement, and Entra-Defender Convergence
The final week of July 2026 delivers a diverse set of Microsoft Entra ID updates spanning authentication, multi-tenant management, protocol security, …
Windows 365 Adds Bulk Deprovisioning and PowerShell Security Hardening — What IT Admins Need to Know
Managing Cloud PC lifecycles at scale has always been a balancing act between operational efficiency and security. You want to deprovision departed …
AVD Brings External Identity and Passwordless Authentication to Android
Microsoft’s July 2026 updates for Azure Virtual Desktop bring two significant enhancements to the Android client experience. Both target the …
Windows 365 Brings External Identities and Passwordless Auth to Android — What IT Admins Need to Know
For IT administrators managing Windows 365 environments, supporting external users on mobile devices has historically meant compromise. You could give …
Microsoft Entra ID: Risk Policy Retirement, Passkey CVE
The week of July 27 brought a mix of planned retirements, vulnerability disclosures, and active threat intelligence that every Entra ID admin needs on …
Microsoft Entra ID July 24 2026: AI Agent Sprawl Realities and SAP Identity Modernization
Microsoft Entra ID delivered two significant updates this week: eye-opening findings from Identiverse 2026 about AI agent sprawl in enterprise …
Microsoft Entra ID July 22 2026: Branded Sign-in CSS Retirement, B2C Migration Policy Analyzer GA
Microsoft Entra ID rolled out two notable updates this week: a security-focused retirement of custom CSS positioning properties in branded sign-in …
Microsoft Entra ID Late July 2026: Passkeys on Windows GA, Mandatory Agent IDs, Network DLP, and Identity Risk Scoring
Microsoft’s identity platform continues its rapid evolution, with late July 2026 bringing a wave of updates that touch every corner of the Entra …
Windows 365 Expands BCDR with Alternate Regions — What IT Admins Need to Know
For organizations running Windows 365 Cloud PCs in geographies where only one Azure region is supported, disaster recovery has been a persistent …
Microsoft Entra ID Late July 2026: SharePoint OTP Retirement Update, Cloud Sync Migration Begins, Teams Rooms Go Passwordless
The Microsoft Entra ID updates for late July 2026 focus on transitions — moving organizations away from legacy authentication and synchronization …
Microsoft Entra ID Mid-July 2026: SSO Admin Controls, Connect Sync Passkeys, MCP Authorization, and Directory Encryption
The Microsoft Entra ID updates keep coming thick and fast this July. While the blockbuster passkey-as-default announcement from last week is still …
Windows 365 Cloud PC Settings Reaches General Availability — What It Means for IT Admins
Microsoft has been steadily building toward a unified settings experience for Windows 365 throughout 2026. First came the navigation reorganization in …
Microsoft Entra ID July 2026: Passkeys Become Default as SMS/Voice MFA Faces Retirement
The biggest authentication shift in Microsoft Entra ID history is here. On July 13, 2026, Microsoft announced that passkeys will become the default …
Windows 365 Cloud Apps File Path Publishing and Redesigned Provisioning Policy UI — What's New July 2026
Microsoft shipped two Windows 365 updates the week of July 13, 2026, and both are about making Cloud Apps and provisioning policy management more …
Microsoft Entra ID July 2026 Updates: Audit Log Enhancements, Federation Security, App Lock Defaults, and Graph API Innovations
While the official Microsoft Entra “What’s New” page on Microsoft Learn hasn’t been updated with a July 2026 section yet (it …
AVD Adds Domainless Federation Support: External Identities Without Domain Matching
Microsoft has added external identity support for Domainless SAML IdP federation to Azure Virtual Desktop. Aligned with the general availability of …
Microsoft Entra July 2026: Agent Identity Governance, PIM Custom Extensions, and Network-Layer Data Protection
While the Microsoft Entra “What’s New” page hasn’t been updated with a July 2026 section yet, the Microsoft Entra Blog on Tech …
Windows 365 Policy Reranking, Customer-Managed Encryption for Reserve, and Domainless Federation — What's New July 2026
Microsoft dropped three significant Windows 365 updates in the July 6 and June 15 What’s New entries — covering policy management, encryption …
RDP Multipath Reaches General Availability: What This Means for Your AVD Sessions
Microsoft has announced that RDP Multipath with redundant TCP transport paths is now generally available for Azure Virtual Desktop. This marks the …
Windows 365 RDP Multipath with Redundant TCP Now Generally Available
Microsoft has officially declared RDP Multipath with redundant TCP transport paths generally available for Windows 365 Cloud PC, appearing in the Week …
Azure Virtual Desktop June 2026: Host Pools, Autoscaling GA
Microsoft delivered one of the most consequential Azure Virtual Desktop updates of 2026 in June. Three features reached general availability — …
Microsoft Entra ID July 2026: Built-in Backup, AI Agent Conditional Access, and BYOD Goes GA
Microsoft shipped eleven Entra ID updates in June 2026, and the pattern is clear: Microsoft is building resilience into the identity platform itself, …
Windows 365 Security Hardening and Flexible Naming — What's New in July 2026
Microsoft quietly rolled out two important updates to Windows 365 in recent weeks — one security-focused, one operational. Both deserve your attention …
Azure Virtual Desktop Updates for June 2026: Automated Host Pools, Dynamic Autoscaling, and Ephemeral OS Disks
June 2026 brings an exciting round of management and cost-optimization updates to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Microsoft has heavily focused on …
Windows 365 Flex Shared Cloud PCs Now Support Custom Naming Templates — Public Preview
Windows 365 Flex Shared Cloud PCs now support enhanced naming templates in public preview — a seemingly small change with significant downstream …
Windows 365 Context-Based Redirections, GPU Options, 32 vCPU, and Dev-Ready Images — June 2026 Update
Microsoft’s June 2026 Windows 365 update is its most consequential yet — spanning security, compute power, GPU capabilities, and developer …
Azure Virtual Desktop Introduces Context-Based Redirections — Dynamic BYOD Security Controls
Azure Virtual Desktop now supports context-based redirections in public preview, introducing dynamic, server-side control of clipboard, drive, …
Microsoft Entra ID June 2026: Connect Security, SAP Modernization, and Smarter Monitoring
The pace of Microsoft Entra ID releases shows no signs of slowing. Three new announcements landed in the May 2026 what’s-new feed that deserve …
Microsoft Entra ID: Passwordless Is Now Default as Microsoft Converges Identity Governance
Microsoft shipped a dense wave of updates to Entra ID in May 2026, and while none of them are the kind of “you must act now or break” …
W365 - Teams RemoteApp and CloudApp Optimization Reaches GA: What SlimCore Means for Your Cloud PC Environment
If your organization delivers Microsoft Teams through Windows 365 CloudApps or Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteApps, this week’s announcement …
Windows 365 Custom Images from Azure Compute Gallery Are Now Generally Available
If your organization uses custom images for Windows 365 Cloud PC provisioning, this week’s update is worth paying attention to. Microsoft has …
Azure Virtual Desktop — FSLogix for Cloud-Only and External Identities Is Now GA
Microsoft quietly shipped a landmark capability in May 2026: FSLogix profile containers for cloud-only and external identities in Azure Virtual …
RDP Multipath Gains Redundant TCP Transport — GA Rollout Begins for Azure Virtual Desktop
Microsoft has begun the general availability rollout of redundant TCP transport paths for RDP Multipath in Azure Virtual Desktop. This enhancement …
Windows 365 Gains Autopilot Device Preparation, Reserve Upgrades, and RDP Multipath TCP — May 2026 Update
Microsoft delivered four meaningful updates to Windows 365 this week, spanning Cloud PC provisioning reliability, emergency access improvements for …
Microsoft Entra Agent ID GA: Deep Dive for IT and Security
AI agents aren’t coming — they’re already here. And the security industry has been playing catch-up. Microsoft’s answer arrived in …
Microsoft Entra ID April 2026: 11 New General Availability Announcements That Matter
April 2026 was a significant month for Microsoft Entra ID, with eleven features reaching General Availability across three strategic pillars: …
Microsoft Entra ID April GA Wave: CBA Expansions, SSE Maturation, and New Governance Controls
April 2026 delivered one of the largest single-month General Availability releases in Microsoft Entra ID history. Eleven new features reached GA, …
Azure Virtual Desktop Goes Truly Hybrid — Arc-Enabled Servers Now in Public Preview
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) has always been a cloud-native VDI service. But starting this week, that description needs an asterisk — because Microsoft …
Windows 365 Frontline Is Now Windows 365 Flex — Plus, Admin Insights Enters Public Preview
Microsoft shipped two significant updates for Windows 365 this week — one purely cosmetic (but strategically important), and one genuinely useful for …