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2026 (12)

November (3)

dotnet: Modernize your .NET apps for Windows Arm64 with GitHub Copilot

.NET

2026-11-05

Microsoft announced guidance for using GitHub Copilot’s upgrade agent to modernize .NET apps for Windows Arm64, covering blocker identification, migration planning, and code changes. The post is a .NET Blog entry focused on the upgrade workflow.

security: New investments to reduce on-premises security risk

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-11-05

Microsoft announced a new on-premises security initiative that combines guidance, migration support, and product investments to reduce security risk in on-prem environments.

commandline: Nine engineers, 1,211 pull requests in a day: Lessons from building Copilot Cowork

Microsoft Command Line Blog

2026-11-02

Microsoft describes a case study from building Copilot Cowork, including a live migration of the runtime from Python to Rust. The article frames the migration as an example of the engineering practices used while shipping the system.

October (3)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Large OS Disk Encryption for Azure Confidential VM migrations

Azure Updates

2026-10-29

Large OS Disk Encryption (LOSDE) is now generally available for Azure Confidential VM migration scenarios. It enables migration of larger production workloads with the OS disk fully protected.

azure: Announcing: Migrate Azure Container Apps logging destination from Log Analytics to Azure Monitor

Azure Updates

2026-10-28

Azure Container Apps now treats Log Analytics as a legacy logging destination. Existing environments will keep working, but users are advised to plan migration to Azure Monitor logging.

dotnet: Get Your .NET MAUI App Ready for Xcode 27

.NET

2026-10-19

Microsoft published guidance for preparing existing .NET MAUI apps for Xcode 27. The post explains scene lifecycle changes and the manual migration steps needed to update apps.

September (5)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: SQL Migration Agent Skills for assessment, migration, and validation

Azure Updates

2026-09-29

SQL Migration Agent Skills are now generally available to help automate SQL Server to Azure migrations. They provide reusable AI-powered skills for assessment, target selection, migration execution, and post-migration validation.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft SQL Agent Skills

Azure Updates

2026-09-29

Microsoft SQL Agent Skills are in public preview. They provide product-specific guidance for AI agents used to build, operate, and migrate SQL workloads across Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database container, and SQL Server migration scenarios.

github: Ubuntu 26 generally available and latest migration

GitHub

2026-09-17

Ubuntu 26.04 runner images for GitHub Actions are now generally available and fully supported for production workflows on x64 and arm64. The release notes also mention a migration update.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Agentless migration of on-premises SMB file shares to Azure Files (SMB)

Azure Updates

2026-09-11

Azure Storage Mover now supports agentless migration of on-premises SMB file shares to Azure Files (SMB) in public preview. The migration can move data from Windows Server or NAS shares without deploying, registering, or maintaining a migration agent.

github: Enterprise Live Migrations from GHES to ghe.com generally available

GitHub

2026-09-01

Enterprise Live Migrations is now generally available for near-zero-downtime repository migrations from GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) to GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency (GHEC DR).

August (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Managed Instance on Azure App Service

Azure Updates

2026-08-18

Managed Instance on Azure App Service is now generally available. It is intended to help migrate web applications from on-premises or virtual machines to Azure App Service with minimal configuration and no code changes.