2026-W35

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 - 2026-08-24

Week of 2026-08-24 → 2026-08-30

Category	Name	Link
☁️ Platform	Apps	Azure SRE Agent VNet integration is now generally available
☁️ Platform	Apps	Manage and retrieve credentials securely inside Browser Automation Tool (BAT) using Azure Key Vault
☁️ Platform	Apps	Stop restricting the agent. Start restricting its environment.
🤖🔐 AI/Security	Core Infra Sec	Unified AI Defense: Security Copilot, Project Perception, and MDASH
🤖 AI/Agentic	Dev	🚀 Foundry Toolkit for VS Code — August 2026 Update
🔐 Security	Entra	Instant revocation of service principal bearer tokens with CAE
🤖 AI/Agentic	Foundry	Grok 4.6 comes to Microsoft Foundry Models: Built for long-horizon reasoning and complex workflows
🤖 AI/Agentic	Foundry	Consume Dataverse MCP server in Microsoft Foundry-Bringing business data to AI Agents
🤖 AI/Agentic	Foundry	Building Production-Ready AI Agents in Microsoft Foundry: 10 Lessons Learned
🤖 AI/Agentic	Foundry	When Does RL Actually Help Fine-Tuning? A Difficulty-Controlled Study on Structured Generation
🤖 AI/Agentic	Foundry	Introducing Cohere Parse V5
🤖 AI/Agentic	Foundry	Cohere Parse v5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry
🤖 AI/Agentic	Foundry	Benchmark Retrieval Patterns for Copilot Studio and Foundry IQ
🤖 AI/Agentic	Foundry	Enabling A2A endpoint and Agent Card for a Hosted Agent
🤖 AI/Agentic	Infra	Azure Copilot Introduces Direct Access to Agents
☁️ Platform	Infra	Maia 200: Software-defined dataflow and all-Ethernet networking for efficient inference on Azure
☁️ Platform	Integrations	Zonal redundancy in API management Standard v2
☁️ Platform	Integrations	Bringing all your Integration workloads to Logic Apps Standard
🔐 Security	Intune	What’s new in Microsoft Intune – August
☁️ Platform	MS Commandline	Your agent’s guardrails have a bypass
🔐 Security	MS Security	TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion
🔐 Security	MS Security	​​​​​​What’s new in Microsoft Security: August 2026
🔐 Security	MS Security	When AI infrastructure becomes the target: Securing gateways and control points
🔐 Security	Security Blog	Reminder: Ask Microsoft Anything with David Weston is Tomorrow (8/25) at 8AM PST!
🔐 Security	Threat Intel	TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion