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Monday, June 29, 2026
11 new posts across 10 Microsoft websites since Friday, June 26, 2026
  • Microsoft 365 Blog (1)
  • Microsoft Copilot Studio Blog (1)
  • Microsoft 365 Blog - Tech Community (1)
  • Microsoft Azure Blog (1)
  • Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (1)
  • ITOps Talk Blog (1)
  • Microsoft Security Blog (1)
  • Public Sector Blog (1)
  • Access Blog (1)
  • Azure AI Foundry Blog (2)

Microsoft 365 Blog

Copilot in Excel: Built for the era of Frontier Finance

 Plenty of AI tools claim to be built for finance; Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel is proving it in practice. The post Copilot in Excel: Built for the era of Frontier Finance appeared first on Microsoft...

Fri 26-Jun-2026
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Microsoft Copilot Studio Blog

Building reliable voice agents: A practical guide

 Learn how to design AI voice agents that handle real conversations, stay reliable under pressure, and scale from prototype to production. The post Building reliable voice agents: A practical guide app...

Fri 26-Jun-2026
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Microsoft 365 Blog - Tech Community

10 things to know before enabling Microsoft 365 Backup

 Microsoft 365 Backup can help strengthen your organization’s native safety net; it’s built directly into the platform you already trust, designed to recover your Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint,...

Fri 26-Jun-2026
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Microsoft Azure Blog

The performance dividend: Optimizing PostgreSQL on Azure directly in Visual Studio Code

 Poor database performance is never just a database problem. In enterprise teams, it shows up as missed SLAs, delayed releases, frustrated development teams, and rising operational risk. The performanc...

Fri 26-Jun-2026
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Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Remote Event Receivers are retiring: move to SharePoint webhooks before July 1, 2027

 Remote Event Receivers in SharePoint Online are retiring. Starting July 1, 2027, all remote event receivers will stop firing events, including those registered using Microsoft Entra applications. The ...

Mon 29-Jun-2026
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ITOps Talk Blog

Best practices for Infrastructure as Code CI/CD on Azure

 Hello Folks! If your IaC repo has a dev folder, a test folder, and a prod folder that all started out identical and have since drifted in three different directions, this session is for you. At the Mi...

Fri 26-Jun-2026
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Microsoft Security Blog

Chromium extension uses AI‑related branding to redirect browser search

 A malicious Chromium-based extension that spoofs the AI-powered answer engine Perplexity AI redirects browser search traffic using MV3 APIs and intermediary infrastructure. The post Chromium extension...

Mon 29-Jun-2026
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Public Sector Blog

Microsoft SPARK: Powering America’s Genesis Mission for Scientific Discovery

 The Genesis Mission: A National Commitment to Discovery The U.S. Department of Energy announced the Genesis Mission as a historic national effort to use the power of artificial intelligence to acceler...

Fri 26-Jun-2026
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Access Blog

Bug fixes in Microsoft Access - Version 2606 (Build 16.0.20131)

 Bug Name Issue Fixed German keyboard: AltGr key combinations triggered zoom shortcuts instead of typing characters On German and other keyboard layouts that use AltGr for common characters (such as...

Fri 26-Jun-2026
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Azure AI Foundry Blog

Practice the Hard Call: Real-Time Voice Training with Live Voice Practice

 Customer service runs on conversations that are hard to have and harder to practice. A frustrated customer with a billing charge that was never fixed. A cancellation that turns into a retention call. ...

Fri 26-Jun-2026
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Evaluating Multi-Turn Agents: A Quality Study of Microsoft Foundry’s Multi-Turn Evaluators

 Authors: Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Salma Elshafey, Shuo Qiu, José Santos, Ilya Matiach, Vivek Bhadauria, Morteza Ziyadi, April Kwong LLM-as-judge evaluations are a critical part of any agent lifecycle. Single...

Fri 26-Jun-2026
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