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Allison explains a GitHub Copilot cloud agent update that lets organization admins set and optionally lock the GitHub Actions runner used for agent tasks, making it easier to enforce consistent defaults and guardrails across repositories.
macalde shares the March 2026 Innovation Challenge results, highlighting hackathon winners and example projects focused on building AI solutions on Azure (including RAG, multi-agent analytics, and governed AI outputs).
GitHub shares a short video featuring advocate Olivia Guzzardo’s meal planning app as inspiration for getting started with the GitHub Copilot SDK, which is now in public preview.
The Visual Studio Code Team summarizes what’s new in VS Code 1.115 (Insiders), including updates to Copilot-related agent sessions, terminal automation, and remote SSH connections for agent hosting.
Allison announces the deprecation of several GPT-5.1 Codex models across GitHub Copilot experiences and explains what Copilot users and Enterprise administrators should do to move to the suggested replacement models.
Shawn Henry announces Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 for .NET and Python, highlighting production-ready APIs, multi-agent orchestration, Azure Foundry/Azure OpenAI integrations, and new capabilities like workflows, memory providers, MCP/A2A support, and tooling such as DevUI.
EldertGrootenboer announces the general availability of Network Security Perimeter (NSP) support for Azure Service Bus, explaining how it complements existing network controls and how to roll it out safely using transition and enforced modes.
Luke Ghenco explains how GitHub improved pull request “Files changed” performance by simplifying React diff-line components, reducing DOM/event handler overhead, and introducing virtualization for very large diffs.
Microsoft Developer shares Matt Soucoup’s overview of how GitHub Copilot can help modernize legacy .NET apps by analyzing a project, proposing a plan, and generating task lists to move toward modern .NET.
Microsoft Developer shares Matt Soucoup’s walkthrough of using GitHub Copilot in VS Code to assess a .NET Framework project, generate a migration plan, and create structured tasks to upgrade to modern .NET.
Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot cloud agent: organization admins can now manage the agent firewall settings across all repositories, making it easier to apply consistent security defaults and guardrails at scale.
Allison announces that GitHub Copilot cloud agent now signs every commit it creates, so commits show as Verified and the agent can work in repositories that enforce “Require signed commits” branch protection rules.
KenHooverMSFT explains how Azure On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) work for Azure Virtual Machines, why VMs can fail to start during capacity pressure, what ODCRs cost, and a practical approach for applying reservations to existing (already running) VMs.
In this community post, lakshaymalik lays out a practical AKS DevSecOps model that prevents common Kubernetes misconfigurations by enforcing governance at admission time with Azure Policy/Gatekeeper, then backing it up with runtime detection (Defender for Containers) and continuous compliance to catch drift.
John Savill's Technical Training shares a short weekly roundup covering Azure platform updates across compute, storage, networking integration, database service lifecycle, Event Grid, and a few AI-related items like Azure Speech Neural HD and a newly referenced Nemotron model.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains a Microsoft Fabric (Preview) update that lets you enable workspace-level customer-managed keys (CMK) even when the underlying Fabric capacity is configured for Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), simplifying enterprise encryption and compliance setups while using Azure Key Vault or Managed HSM.
ShivaniThadiyan explains how Azure SQL Managed Instance is evolving from a SQL Server-compatible PaaS into an AI-enabled platform, covering built-in operational intelligence, vector search, in-database Python/R machine learning, and Copilot-assisted diagnostics with security and governance considerations.
ShivaniThadiyan outlines a shift-left approach to Azure infrastructure validation, using GitHub Copilot as an assistive layer to summarize Terraform plans, interpret drift signals, and help prioritize Azure Policy and Azure Resource Graph findings—without removing human approvals or governance.
Microsoft Developer shares an announcement for GitHub Copilot Dev Days, pointing developers to a Luma page to find or host a local event (including Chennai on 4/11).
Vaibhav Pandey shares a production-oriented “Bring Your Own Model” (BYOM) pattern for Azure AI applications, showing how to package, register, and deploy a custom model on Azure Machine Learning with secure identity, networking, and scalable managed endpoints.