On 3 November 2026, the memberOf operator in Microsoft Entra dynamic membership groups stops working. Nothing errors. Nothing breaks loudly. Every dynamic group, dynamic administrative unit and entitlement management auto-assignment policy that uses it simply freezes in its last known state the people who should be added are not added, and the people wh…

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of Microsoft Entra news from around the globe 🌍.

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

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As the Agentic world continues to expand at breakneck speed, one of the most popular areas of debate and conversation is around the security and governance of agentic identities. Whether you’re caught up in the hype of which major vendor just announced their new agentic identity provider, trying to figure out a governance strategy for agents, or thinkin…

When I evaluate Microsoft Corporation today, I see an enterprise undergoing one of the most significant physical and operational transformations in corporate history. Over the past thirteen years, under the leadership of Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has systematically transformed itself from an asset-light enterprise software provider into …

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On September 8, Open Future Forum is bringing its enterprise AI community to Microsoft’s campus in Mountain View.

Microsoft has made passkeys the default authentication method for Entra ID, its cloud-based identity and access management service, effective September 1, 2024. The company will discontinue SMS and v…

Congrats to Leo D’Arcy on making MVP! Apologies, everyone; I thought this went out yesterday! Not sure how that happened.

Microsoft starts making passkeys the default in Microsoft Entra ID on 1 September 2026, and retires Microsoft-provided SMS and voice MFA on 1 February 2027. Every organisation with a large, messy population now has to answer a question that has nothing to do with passkey technology itself: how do you move a hundred thousand real people - office workers,…

LinkedIn sucks so hard it almost seems deliberate.

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.

This AI Workflow Story features Jose Antonio Morales, who is a 53-year-old community builder who also runs two newsletters: Growing Fearless is an Adventure and Automato: Smarter Work in the Age of AI.

Healthcare AI careers are evolving rapidly, and this week’s edition highlights one of the most intriguing opportunities currently available to clinicians: Clinical Specialist at Microsoft AI in London. As healthcare organisations move beyond pilot projects and begin integrating AI into everyday clinical workflows, there is growing demand for clinicians …

On September 2, 2026, Microsoft made significant changes to its financial reporting. Beginning with fiscal 2027, Microsoft will begin separately disclosing Azure revenue, a figure it had long kept within broader cloud disclosures. The change in presentation, however, does not fully address the larger questions about the economics of Microsoft’s AI build-out.

#SaudiArabia #Arabic - Saudi Arabia’s national AI company HUMAIN has announced the first milestone in a long-term strategic collaboration with Microsoft, aimed at bringing HUMAIN’s ALLaM Arabic language models into Microsoft Foundry and the M365 Copilot

The awkward failures are rarely the ones shown in the demo.

👋 Hi folks, the Microsoft AI weekly is back after a short hiatus. I started this newsletter just a couple of weeks before I left Microsoft but promptly ran out of time to do justice to this.

“Nebius is the company that NVIDIA, Meta, and Microsoft collectively chose to build the power grid for the AI revolution — and they signed $46 billion in contracts to prove it.”

Both companies want the tariff refund lawsuits thrown out. Sony expects $508 million back from the government and says it owes customers none of it, and its cleverest argument is the April price hike.

Week 1 of the college football season is upon us, and Rutgers kicked it off by losing to UMass as 29-point favorites. Considering that Rutgers helped invent football and played in the first football game ever in 1869, the team may now be looking at that history like Odysseus remembered the Trojan Horse at the end of