Microsoft 365 outage: still ongoing. Microsoft reports incremental improvement in several workloads but capacity is not yet back to baseline; email timeout extended to 48 hours. Next update by 11:00 UK time. Latest status
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  1. Microsoft 365 outage, 12 November 2026: what happened and what admins can do NEWMicrosoft 365 · Exchange Online
  2. Five Microsoft products reach end of support tomorrow: the last-day checks NEWAzure · Windows news
  3. Outlook.com is rejecting mail from domains without DMARC: how to fix 550 5.7.1 NEWExchange Online · Security
  4. Windows Sandbox for IT admins: test apps and suspicious files in a throwaway Windows NEWWindows · Intune
  5. Azure web role vs worker role: what they were, and where to move them before March 2027Azure
  6. Azure built-in roles explained: Owner, Contributor, Reader and what to use insteadAzure · Governance
  7. Microsoft Graph permissions explained: delegated vs application, consent and least privilegeEntra ID · Security
  8. Entra ID and Active Directory backup and recovery: the complete guideEntra ID · Hybrid identity
  9. The power cut that saved Maersk, and what NotPetya teaches about Active Directory recoverySecurity · Hybrid identity
  10. The most expensive mistakes in tech history, and the lesson each one teachesSecurity · Automation
  11. The $6.3 billion Binance hack may have started with one engineer's laptop: what happened, and what every IT team should take from itSecurity · Entra ID news
  12. 10 November is the biggest end-of-support day of the year: what ends, how to find it, and what to move toAzure · Windows news
  13. What's changing in Intune: the deadlines, defaults and new features to plan for nowIntune news
  14. The week in review: Secure Boot, PHP2Shell, Exchange and everything else that happenedSecurity · Windows news
  15. Five things breaking this week: PHP attacks, Exchange, Always On VPN, Smart App Control and NTLMv1Security · Windows news
  16. The PHP flaw that took websites offline worldwide: what AI found, and what to do in Azure todayAzure · Security news
  17. Ten new free tools for Azure, Entra and Intune admins, and Admin Lens 2.1Tools · Azure
  18. Azure Functions in-process model ends 10 November 2026: find and migrate your appsAzure · Automation news
  19. Introducing Admin Lens: errors explained right where you see themTools · Entra ID
  20. Azure Arc for servers: the complete setup guideAzure · Security
  21. Every Entra default user permission, what it does, and how to check yours in one commandEntra ID · Security
  22. MC1506733: every user can create agent blueprints in Entra from November unless you turn it offEntra ID · Security news
  23. What's actually inside an Azure region? From the planet to one server, then we break itAzure · Security
  24. Microsoft's deadline week: four products retire tomorrow, and Secure Boot's last 2011 certificate expires next MondayIntune · Security news
  25. Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2: the last security update ships tomorrowAzure · Security news
  26. Governing AI agent identities in Entra: sponsors, access packages and expiryEntra ID · Governance
  27. Domainless SAML federation: let partners sign in with their own IdP, whatever their email domainEntra ID · Security
  28. How a Tube gate gets paid: half a second at the edge, the maths in the back officeAzure
  29. SOC Identity Responder: contain a compromised account without handing out admin rolesEntra ID · Security news
  30. Road to 50: how this blog runs for about £1 a monthAzure
  31. Intune in September: deployment rings, faster compliance and stricter automationIntune · Windows news
  32. Lock down app consent without blocking your usersEntra ID · Security
  33. Unattended Graph PowerShell scripts with certificate authenticationPowerShell · Entra ID
  34. Microsoft is retiring its own SMS and voice MFA. Here's your plan.Entra ID · Security news
  35. Intune in August: unattended Remote Help, DDM app installs and eSIMIntune news
  36. Stop surprise Azure bills with budgets and anomaly alertsAzure · Governance
  37. Private endpoints and DNS: why your private endpoint isn't being usedAzure · Security
  38. Key Vault: move from access policies to Azure RBACAzure · Security
  39. Intune in July: macOS custom compliance and Defender settings that finally winIntune · Security news
  40. Windows LAPS with Intune: unique local admin passwords in minutesIntune · Windows
  41. Microsoft Authenticator now blocks jailbroken and rooted devicesEntra ID · Security news
  42. BYOD Windows access with Entra registration is now GAEntra ID · Windows news
  43. Entra Connect Sync is on its way out. Start planning for Cloud Sync.Entra ID · Hybrid identity news
  44. Intune's advanced features are coming to Microsoft 365 E3 and E5Intune · Microsoft 365 news
  45. Entra ID backup and recovery: how the new undo button for your tenant worksEntra ID news
  46. Account Discovery: find the accounts your SaaS apps forgot to tell you aboutEntra ID · Governance news
  47. Soft delete for Entra device objects: a safety net for device clean-upsEntra ID · Windows news
  48. Cross-tenant group sync is GA: one group, many tenantsEntra ID · Governance news
  49. System-preferred authentication now picks the first factor tooEntra ID · Passkeys news
  50. Rolling out "require compliant device" without a flood of ticketsIntune · Conditional Access
  51. Packaging Win32 apps for Intune: detection rules and return codesIntune · Windows
  52. Entra Agent ID: giving AI agents real identitiesEntra ID · Security news
  53. Configurable token lifetimes are GA: when to shorten them (and when not to)Entra ID · Security news
  54. Require phishing-resistant MFA on every PIM activationEntra ID · Governance news
  55. Intune Remediations: find and fix problems before users noticeIntune · Windows
  56. Tenant configuration management: snapshot your Entra config and catch driftEntra ID · Governance news
  57. Hybrid join without Entra Connect: hybrid join using Entra KerberosEntra ID · Hybrid identity news
  58. Clean up guest accounts with access reviewsEntra ID · Governance
  59. Synced passkeys and passkey profiles are now GA in Entra IDEntra ID · Passkeys news
  60. Six KQL queries for Entra sign-in logs every admin should keepEntra ID · Azure
  61. Edge or LinkedIn showing in the wrong language? Check your Intune language packsIntune · Windows
  62. External MFA is GA: third-party MFA without giving up Conditional AccessEntra ID · Security news
  63. Resource locks: a cheap insurance policy against the wrong clickAzure · Governance
  64. Group-based licensing: finding and fixing assignment errorsEntra ID · Microsoft 365
  65. Azure Policy guardrails every subscription should haveAzure · Governance
  66. Converting synced users to cloud-managed: Source of Authority is GAEntra ID · Hybrid identity news
  67. Deploy from GitHub Actions to Azure without storing a single secretAzure · Entra ID
  68. AADSTS75011: when the app insists on how you signed inEntra ID
  69. Managed identities vs service principals: which should your workload use?Azure · Entra ID
  70. Named locations: getting IP ranges and countries right in Conditional AccessEntra ID · Conditional Access
  71. Authentication strengths: requiring the right kind of MFAEntra ID · Conditional Access
  72. Turning on Defender CSPM across a landing zoneAzure · Security
  73. Test Conditional Access safely with report-only mode and What IfEntra ID · Conditional Access
  74. SCIM provisioning when every target is its own appEntra ID
  75. Break-glass accounts done rightEntra ID · Security
  76. Activate PIM roles from PowerShell with Microsoft GraphEntra ID · PowerShell
  77. Find expiring app secrets and certificates before they biteEntra ID · PowerShell
  78. Rolling a SAML signing certificate without an outageEntra ID
  79. Temporary Access Pass: onboarding users without a passwordEntra ID · Passkeys

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