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azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Agent mitigations and guardrail customization

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft is previewing agent-level guardrails in the Foundry Control Plane (formerly content filters) that let you apply and customize safety controls per agent to help mitigate prompt-injection and other risks.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps [Consumption]

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced the public preview of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps (Consumption), bringing agentic intelligence and adaptive workflows to the serverless Logic Apps runtime and enabling movement beyond traditional static automation toward goal-driven, adaptive automations.

azure: [In preview] Announcing: Developer Training tier for low-cost fine-tuning training

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft Foundry announced a Developer Training tier (preview) that offers ultra-low-cost fine-tuning model training by using spot capacity. The tier aims to provide training affordability comparable to the existing Developer hosting tier, specifically for the training phase of fine-tuning workflows.

azure: [In development] Public Preview: User and group quota reports in Azure NetApp Files

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure NetApp Files is releasing a public preview of user and group quota reports that give visibility into quota limits and usage for NFS, SMB, and dual-protocol volumes to help organizations monitor and manage capacity.

azure: [In development] Public Preview: Large volumes up to 7.2 PiB

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure NetApp Files now supports creating large volumes up to 7.2 PiB with the Cool Access feature on dedicated capacity in Public Preview, targeting workloads where most data are rarely accessed and extending cool-access support beyond prior capacity limits.

azure: [In development] Private Preview: Foundry Local Android support

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Foundry Local is entering Private Preview for Android, adding to existing Windows and Mac support to enable advanced on-device AI for smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices; the release also integrates Whisper models for privacy-preserving speech and audio processing.

azure: [In development] Private Preview: ActiveMQ and JMS connector for Azure Logic Apps

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced a private preview of an ActiveMQ and JMS connector for Azure Logic Apps, enabling connections to enterprise messaging systems built on ActiveMQ and JMS to support advanced hybrid integration scenarios.

security: ​​Ambient and autonomous security for the agentic era​​

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-11-18

Microsoft outlines a vision for 'ambient and autonomous' security to protect AI-driven systems in the emerging agentic era, proposing security become a foundational, proactive capability rather than an add-on.

security: Agents built into your workflow: Get Security Copilot with Microsoft 365 E5

Microsoft Security Blog

2025-11-18

Microsoft announced at Ignite 2025 that Security Copilot is being integrated into Microsoft 365 E5, introducing agents built into security workflows to help teams move from reactive incident response to more proactive, strategic protection.

dotnet: Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET

.NET

2025-11-18

A brief announcement on the .NET Blog describing new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) support in .NET. The post outlines what was added for PQC and explains the development path and decisions that led to those additions.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Taiwan North region

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Taiwan North region, enabling customers in Taiwan to store infrequently accessed data in a cost-effective tier while meeting data residency requirements.

azure: [In preview] Public preview: Support for large volume breakthrough mode

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure NetApp Files now has a public preview for large-volume Breakthrough mode, which delivers extreme performance and scalability for demanding HPC and EDA workloads. It supports volumes up to 2 PiB and can deliver throughput up to 50 GiB/s depending on workload characteristics.