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In this week's episode, we look at recent Microsoft Tech updates. By popular request, we're expanding our scope beyond Azure to include Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and related Microsoft platforms and capabilities. What's new? What's interesting? What's retiring?

(00:00) - Intro and catching up.
(05:09) - Show content starts.

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- Public Preview: Foundry Routines in Foundry Agent Service

- Public Preview: Network egress controls for hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry

- Generally Available: Publishing Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams

- Generally Available: Enable and disable controls for Microsoft Foundry agents in Agent 365

- Generally Available: User-bound user delegation SAS for Azure Storage

- Public Preview: Microsoft SQL Agent Skills

- Generally Available: SQL Migration Agent Skills for assessment, migration, and validation

- Public Preview: PostgreSQL skills and MCP plugin for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

- Azure Updates: Retirement of Microsoft Dev Box 

- Generally Available: User-bound user delegation SAS for Azure Storage

- Generally Available: Exceptions in WAF for Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front - Door

- Public Preview: Azure Front Door profile and route level WAF policies

- Generally Available: Microsoft Defender for Cloud support for Azure Container Apps

- Generally Available: Confidential VMs for Azure Linux

- Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server supports cross-tenant customer-managed keys

- Retirement: Always Encrypted with Intel SGX Enclaves

- Public Preview: PostgreSQL skills and MCP plugin for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

- Microsoft 365: Upcoming Changes and End-of-Support Milestones

- Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 lifecycle reminders

- Azure retirement updates

- Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2026

- ACS retirement

- Agent 365 updates for September

- Telephony providers for Entra SMS and Voice

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