2026-W19

This is an LLM-curated weekly digest drawn from a list of some Microsoft blogs I follow. List of all raw markdown files for the digests are at https://github.com/pisinger/pisinger.github.io/tree/main/_ms_tech_news

MS Tech Community Digest - 2026-05-04

Week of 2026-05-04 → 2026-05-10

Category	Name	Link
☁️ Platform	Compute	Announcing General Availability of Azure Dl/D/Esv7-series VMs based on Intel® Xeon® 6 processors
☁️ Platform	Compute	Public Preview: Migrate your regional virtual machines to availability zones
📦 Container	Compute	Use Azure Container Registry as an Upstream Source for Artifact Cache
☁️ Platform	Compute	Public Preview: Migrate Availability Sets to Virtual Machine Scale Sets
🤖 AI/Agentic	Dev	Turning GitHub Copilot into a “Best Practices Coach” with Copilot Spaces + a Markdown Knowledge Base
🤖 AI/Agentic	Dev	From Test Cases to Trust: Elevating Enterprise Quality with GitHub Copilot
🆔 Identity	Entra	What’s New in Microsoft Entra: May 2026
🔐 Security	Entra	Lock down AI, web, and private apps: what’s new in Internet Access and Private Access
🔐 Security	Entra	Tenant Configuration Management APIs are now generally available
🆔 Identity	Entra	Passkeys aren’t the finish line: Eliminating fallbacks and fixing recovery
🤖 AI/Agentic	Foundry	Now in Foundry: IBM Granite 4.1, NVIDIA Nemotron Nano Omni, and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
🤖 AI/Agentic	Infra	Building Multi-File Refactoring Agents with GitHub Copilot Workspace
☁️ Platform	Infra	CHERIoT-Ibex: Closing the door on memory safety vulnerabilities with hardware-enforced protection
🤖 AI/Agentic	Infra	Safely Migrating Terraform Managed Disks on Azure Using Stable Keys and Copilot
☁️ Platform	Integrations	Announcing Microsoft Host Integration Server 2028: Modern connectivity for IBM Mainframes Midranges
☁️ Platform	Integrations	Logic Apps Newsletter - May 2026
☁️ Platform	Integrations	Announcing the public preview of Oracle Database built-in connector for Azure Logic Apps Standard
🔐 Security	MDC	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Customer Newsletter
🔐 Security	MDC	Better together with Azure WAF + Microsoft Defender for Storage + Defender for Azure SQL Databases
🔐 Security	MS Security	Breaking the code: Multi-stage ‘code of conduct’ phishing campaign leads to AiTM token compromise
📁🔐 Data/Security	Security Blog	The Advantages of Premium Cases in Purview eDiscovery
🔐 Security	Security Blog	Security Dashboard for AI: 3 Ways CISOs Drive Impact Today
🔐 Security	Sentinel	What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel: April 2026
🔐 Security	Sentinel	Extending Sentinel Data Integration: Azure Blob Storage Support for CCF Connectors
🔐 Security	XDR	Monthly news - May 2026