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2026 38

  1. New Conditional Access policy plans in Microsoft Entra
  2. Fight AI with AI | Multi-Agent Security Defense
  3. Build Automated Agents, Workflows, and Apps - New in Copilot Studio
  4. Create agents fast with Agent Builder in Copilot
  5. New Agent 365 controls for Microsoft admins
  6. Windows 365: Five Years In, See What's New
  7. Build your first Power App from data in seconds
  8. Microsoft Entra Suite hands-on tour of identity and network access protections
  9. New agentic platform in Dynamics 365 for Sales and Service
  10. Tokenomics | The new AI currency & your options explained
  11. Deploy Windows updates to counter AI-discovered threats
  12. Zero Trust security for AI agents
  13. Secure containers from code to runtime | Microsoft Defender
  14. Find and fix app issues - Azure Copilot Observability Agent
  15. New Security Controls in Edge for Business
  16. Build Agent Architecture using AI Landing Zones
  17. Rayfin | Go from prompt to production backend
  18. Agent 365 | Identity & Access Controls in Entra
  19. Introducing Azure HorizonDB - PostgreSQL
  20. Agent 365 | Security Operations in Defender
  21. Automate evaluations | Microsoft Foundry
  22. Microsoft Entra Tenant Governance | Find Configuration Drift
  23. Microsoft Excel Beginners Tutorial (2026)
  24. Work IQ | Data, Context, Skills & Tools for Copilot and Your Agents
  25. Azure Arc | On-prem + Multi-cloud Management
  26. Agent 365 | Your Security & Compliance Controls
  27. Operations Context for AI | Ontology in Fabric IQ
  28. Foundry Agent Service + Microsoft Agent Framework Explained
  29. Windows App Management in Microsoft Intune
  30. Claude + GPT | Multi-model intelligence in Copilot
  31. Labeling Files is Worth It | Speed & Protection Benefits in Microsoft Purview
  32. Data Security Investigations in Microsoft Purview
  33. Automate Data Security Triage & Posture | Agents in Microsoft Purview
  34. Zero Out Your Incident Queue - Human-led Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR
  35. Agents in Microsoft Intune | Automate Policy Creation, Troubleshooting & Fix Guidance
  36. AI in Windows 11
  37. AI with Zero Trust Security
  38. Microsoft Entra Agent ID explained

2025 50

  1. New Agents in Microsoft Purview
  2. How Microsoft Agent 365 works
  3. Microsoft Foundry - Everything you need to build AI apps & agents
  4. Foundry IQ for Multi-Source AI Knowledge Bases
  5. Microsoft Sentinel platform — Unified, Graph-enabled, and AI-ready Security
  6. Synced Passkeys in Microsoft Entra for Phishing-resistant MFA
  7. Replace your VPN — Global Secure Access in Microsoft Entra
  8. Run local AI on any PC or Mac — Microsoft Foundry Local
  9. New Data Security Posture Management | Microsoft Purview
  10. Windows 365 updates | AI‑Ready Work, Apps on Demand, Resilient Access
  11. Microsoft Excel Power User Updates | Agent Mode, Copilot Function & Formula AI
  12. How to move Active Directory Source of Authority to Microsoft Entra ID and why
  13. Microsoft Security Copilot agents
  14. Choosing the right Virtual Machine on Azure
  15. New collaborative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
  16. Copilot now included with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & OneNote | Microsoft 365 & Office 365
  17. Build autonomous agents in Copilot Studio | Your MCPs, your models & multi-agent
  18. New data lake in Microsoft Sentinel
  19. New Surface Laptop 5G for Business, Copilot+ PC
  20. NEW Conditional Access Optimization Agent in Microsoft Entra + Security Copilot in Entra updates
  21. How SharePoint Embedded works and how to build AI apps on it
  22. Secure your AI apps with user-context-aware controls | Microsoft Purview SDK
  23. Microsoft Intune data-driven management | Device Query & Copilot
  24. Introducing Microsoft Purview Alert Triage Agents for Data Loss Prevention & Insider Risk Management
  25. Fix Identity Sprawl + Optimize Microsoft Entra
  26. What's new in SQL Server 2025
  27. Meet the Supercomputer that runs ChatGPT, Sora & DeepSeek on Azure (feat. Mark Russinovich)
  28. New Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning | Create fine-tuned models to write like you do
  29. Agent management updates in the Copilot Control System
  30. Data security for agents and 3rd party AI in Microsoft Purview
  31. Data security controls in OneLake
  32. Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring updates
  33. Protect AI apps with Microsoft Defender
  34. How Microsoft 365 Backup works and how to set it up
  35. Microsoft Purview protections for Copilot
  36. Microsoft 365 Copilot Power User Tips
  37. New reasoning agents: Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot
  38. Microsoft Purview: New data security controls for the browser & network
  39. New agents and Copilot Chat for frontline staff
  40. How to set up Windows 365 (2025 tutorial)
  41. Introducing Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations
  42. Introducing Copilot in the Microsoft 365 admin centers
  43. Introducing Azure AI Foundry — Everything you need for AI development
  44. Connect to any data with Shortcuts, Mirroring and Data Factory using Microsoft Fabric
  45. Introducing Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID
  46. Introducing the Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog
  47. Copilot Control System explained
  48. How to set up agents and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, included with Microsoft 365
  49. Using Azure AI Foundry SDK for your AI apps and agents
  50. High Performance Computing in Azure - with Mark Russinovich

2024 52

  1. One-click AI agents in SharePoint and Teams — focused on files you select (Microsoft 365 Copilot)
  2. Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server - Elastic Clusters, faster disks, and AI updates
  3. Windows 365 Frontline updates: New shared mode
  4. Build autonomous SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric
  5. Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), new to Microsoft Purview
  6. Oversharing Control at Enterprise Scale | Updates for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Microsoft Purview
  7. Introducing Windows 365 Link
  8. How Azure AI Search powers RAG in ChatGPT and global scale apps
  9. Microsoft 365 Copilot - Small Business Guide to Set Up Copilot
  10. AI apps - Control Safety, Privacy & Security - with Mark Russinovich
  11. How to Choose the Right Models for Your Apps | Azure AI
  12. New Low-Cost Log Options, Automation, AI & SIEM Migration | Microsoft Sentinel Updates
  13. Windows 11, version 24H2 | Security, experience, performance, and migration updates.
  14. Code AI apps on Azure - Python, Prompty & Visual Studio
  15. Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave Two updates - Pages, Excel, OneDrive, and agents
  16. Token theft protection with Microsoft Entra, Intune, Defender XDR & Windows
  17. Microsoft 365 Copilot - Small Business Guide to Prepare your Data for Search
  18. New Surface Pro & Surface Laptop | Copilot+ PCs for business
  19. Generative AI powered by your SQL data
  20. Generative AI with Microsoft Fabric
  21. New AI integration for your SQL databases | RAG, Vector Search, Admin Automation
  22. New GPU-enabled Windows 365 experiences
  23. Generative AI with Azure Cosmos DB
  24. New Microsoft Entra Suite
  25. More Performance + AI Integration | Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
  26. PostgreSQL with Local Small Language Model and In-Database Vectorization | Azure
  27. Get Copilot responses based on your own files (no copy/paste)
  28. Vector Search using 95% Less Compute | DiskANN with Azure Cosmos DB
  29. PostgreSQL for your AI app's backend | Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
  30. New Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric | Event-based actions and insights
  31. Extend Copilot for Sales with custom data and insights from your own apps
  32. Build your own copilot! New Microsoft Copilot extensions
  33. What runs GPT-4o and Microsoft Copilot? | Largest AI supercomputer in the cloud | Mark Russinovich
  34. Prioritize Security Incidents Based on Data Importance | Microsoft Defender with Microsoft Purview
  35. AI Semantic Search for Your Website with Azure Cosmos DB | E-commerce
  36. Intelligent FinOps in Azure
  37. Enable Copilot for Microsoft 365 FAST
  38. Linux on Microsoft Azure?
  39. Extend your data security to Microsoft Fabric
  40. Is Azure the right place to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads?
  41. Security Exposure Management
  42. Introducing Microsoft Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for Business
  43. Insider Risk in Conditional Access | Microsoft Entra + Microsoft Purview Adaptive Protection
  44. Protect data used in prompts with common AI apps | Microsoft Purview
  45. What is the database behind ChatGPT?
  46. Microsoft Copilot personal and work experiences explained
  47. Build your own private ChatGPT style app with enterprise-ready architecture
  48. Identity Threat Detection & Response - on-prem to cloud ITDR from Microsoft
  49. How to run Azure Virtual Desktop on-premises
  50. Microsoft Intune Suite - beyond endpoint management in 2024
  51. How to get ready for Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Updates for 2024
  52. Microsoft Entra user and admin access controls to prepare for Copilot

2023 60

  1. GPT-4 Turbo with Vision + Azure AI Vision
  2. Build your own copilots with Azure AI Studio
  3. Identity-centric Internet Access protections | Microsoft Entra
  4. Microsoft Entra Private Access protections for on-premises & private cloud network resources
  5. Microsoft Viva Glint + Copilot to analyze employee feedback at scale
  6. Real-Time Collaboration | Microsoft Loop Updates for Admins
  7. Protect your data estate with Microsoft Purview
  8. Microsoft Fabric: Data mirroring and Copilot updates
  9. Microsoft Defender XDR, Security Copilot & Microsoft Sentinel now in one portal
  10. What is the Windows App? + GPU support coming to Windows 365
  11. How Microsoft Security Copilot works
  12. macOS management with Microsoft Intune | Deployment, single sign-on, settings, apps & DDM
  13. How Sales Copilot Works & How To Set It Up
  14. How vector search and semantic ranking improve your GPT prompts
  15. Microsoft Entra ID Beginner's Tutorial (Azure Active Directory)
  16. Predict future attacks! Cloud Security Posture Management with Microsoft Defender
  17. Automate data-driven actions | Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric
  18. How Microsoft 365 Copilot can work with your external data
  19. Build GPT-automated customer support with Azure Communication Services
  20. How Bing Chat Enterprise works with your data using GPT-4
  21. Data Security Exploit Real Crime Case + How Microsoft Purview is Designed to Detect & Respond
  22. AI-powered Data Classification | Microsoft Purview
  23. Frontline updates in Microsoft Teams, Windows 365, Copilot & Dynamics 365 Field Service
  24. Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management
  25. No tenant switching needed | Shared channels in Microsoft Teams
  26. How to migrate your VMs to Azure and why | Complete tutorial with new business case
  27. Azure Virtual Desktop | Automated scaling, imaging & monitoring
  28. AD FS to Microsoft Entra | How to migrate your cloud apps
  29. Automate onboarding & offboarding tasks with Microsoft Entra | Identity Lifecycle Management
  30. Can cloud native architectures lower your long-term costs?
  31. How to get ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot
  32. Fixes & Reporting | Multicloud Vulnerability Detection with Microsoft Purview
  33. How do LLMs work with Vision AI? | OCR, Image & Video Analysis
  34. Copilot AI updates across the Power Platform | Automate, apps, pages & virtual agents
  35. Can cross-cloud data analytics be easy? | Microsoft Fabric
  36. What runs ChatGPT? Inside Microsoft's AI supercomputer | Featuring Mark Russinovich
  37. How Microsoft 365 Copilot works
  38. How to add Copilot to your Power Apps | GPT-based User Controls
  39. Part 2 - How to build your first app using Power Apps | Power Fx & Power Automate basics
  40. Azure Virtual Desktop enterprise configuration options
  41. Can security be automatic for your files and data? | Microsoft Purview
  42. How to build your first app using Power Apps | Automatically with Copilot or from scratch
  43. Automate document analysis with Azure Form Recognizer using AI and OCR
  44. Can ChatGPT work with your enterprise data?
  45. Automatically Classify & Protect Documents & Data | Microsoft Purview Information Protection
  46. Multi-cloud Cyberattack Response | How Microsoft's SIEM & XDR work together
  47. Get Ahead of Cyberattacks with Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence
  48. New Microsoft Loop app for modern co-creation
  49. Quantum Computing on Azure | How it Works, What's Coming, & What You Can Try Today
  50. Block storage options with Azure Disk Storage and Elastic SAN
  51. New Microsoft Intune Suite with Privilege Management, Advanced Analytics, Remote Help & App VPN
  52. Simplify Windows Server management in Azure with Automanage & Hotpatch
  53. SQL Server 2022 updates for query performance and database failover
  54. Risk-based automatic DLP policy adjustment with Adaptive Protection | Microsoft Purview
  55. Data Loss Prevention across endpoints, apps, & services | Microsoft Purview
  56. Quick Ways to Reduce Your Azure Costs
  57. Azure Virtual Desktop | Quick Setup
  58. New Automation Kit, Process Advisor app, & SAP integration in Power Automate
  59. Architect More Secure Cloud Apps
  60. Manage your multi-cloud identity infrastructure with Microsoft Entra

2022 53

  1. Microsoft Teams Premium Experiences and How to Set It Up
  2. Use Natural Language & Prompts with AI Models | Azure OpenAI Service
  3. Set up and Manage Azure Dedicated Host
  4. Control & Visibility for the Power Platform with Managed Environments
  5. Azure Virtual Desktop Essentials | Intro and Full Tour
  6. Updates to Windows App Management in Intune with Winget
  7. Power BI integration with Microsoft 365 apps & Sharing Improvements
  8. Unlimited collaboration insights with Microsoft Graph and Azure Synapse Analytics
  9. New Windows 365 App & Management Updates
  10. Azure SQL for Developers - Performance and Automation Updates
  11. Surface Pro 9 | Hands-on Review from its Lead Engineer
  12. Kubernetes & Azure Arc | Run AKS clusters on Windows PCs
  13. Azure Confidential Computing - Virtual Machines & Containers
  14. Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL | How it Works
  15. Build Power Apps from a drawing & Power Automate Flows using natural language
  16. Enhance, Connect, and Manage Content at Scale | Microsoft Syntex Content AI Services
  17. Windows Autopilot | How It Works & How to Set It Up
  18. Viva Engage | The New Community Experience in Microsoft Teams
  19. Windows Autopatch, How it Works | Automate updates to Windows PCs and devices
  20. Protect data in use with Azure Confidential Computing and Intel SGX
  21. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management | Admin Set-up Tutorial
  22. Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform || real-world demo
  23. Hybrid Dev, Compute & Management Updates with Azure Arc
  24. Manage Objectives and Key Results with Transparency | Microsoft Viva Goals
  25. Office and Microsoft 365 Apps Deployment & Update Management 2022
  26. Easily Scale Your Desktop Automation With Hosted RPA Bots
  27. Manage Windows Updates From the Cloud Using Endpoint Manager
  28. Build, Scale & Operate Kubernetes Workloads in Azure | 2022 Updates
  29. Azure Landing Zones | Architectural Blueprint, Tooling & Best Practices
  30. Inside Surface Duo 2 | Microsoft's two screen mobile device for multitasking & hybrid work
  31. Centrally manage regulatory compliance at scale with Compliance Manager in Microsoft Purview
  32. Build developer environments fast with Microsoft Dev Box
  33. Build Text-Based & Talking Chatbots using the Microsoft Power Platform
  34. Add Data at Scale | Datamarts in Power BI
  35. Transform your security operations with Microsoft Security Experts | Human-led services
  36. RPA at Scale with Power Automate and Azure Virtual Desktop
  37. Manage Data Risks from Employee Insiders with Microsoft Purview
  38. Updates to Windows management with Endpoint Manager | Cloud attach, remote help, drivers & more
  39. Windows 365 updates
  40. Exclusive for Education | Manage Windows 11 SE with Surface Laptop SE
  41. Built-in AI in Power BI. Find the Insight You Can’t See!
  42. Single SIM-enabled Number for Teams calls, Mobile & Desk Phones
  43. Enterprise Grade Protection for Small & Medium Businesses | Microsoft Defender for Business
  44. Azure Chaos Studio | Build fault tolerant apps
  45. Power Virtual Agents & Adaptive Cards in Microsoft Teams | Chatbot Demo & Tutorial
  46. Infrastructure Deployment Automation with Red Hat Ansible & Azure Bicep | Linux and Open Source
  47. App Architecture | Improve Azure App Performance, Reliability, Security, Operations & Cost
  48. How to Build and Deliver Apps Fast and Scalable with Azure Container Apps
  49. How to Get Started with Azure Cosmos DB | NoSQL Database for High Performance & Scalability
  50. Robotic Process Automation with Power Automate | How we built it: Xerox
  51. Microsoft Teams for frontline workers: What's Live and Coming Soon
  52. What Azure Option is Right for You? Free New Assessment Tool
  53. Cloud Migration - Options for virtual machines, databases, web apps and containers explained

2021 61

  1. Contact Space Satellites to Access Data — Azure Orbital
  2. How to Keep Internet Explorer Sites Working
  3. Microsoft Teams Essentials: The Setup, Intro & Tutorial
  4. Increase app availability with auto-scaling | Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  5. Reduce Operational Costs of Stateless Workloads | Azure Spot Virtual Machines
  6. What’s new in SQL Server 2022
  7. Save time with new hybrid work and collaboration experiences across Microsoft 365
  8. Power Apps | Pay-as-you-go Model, Standalone Mobile App Packages & Azure Integration
  9. Azure Virtual Desktop for on-premises Azure Stack HCI + other hybrid updates
  10. Stop Cloud & Hybrid Apps from being Cyber Attack Entry Points
  11. See Why Microsoft Visio is Now Available to More People. Plus Recent Updates
  12. Manage All Your Surface Devices in a Single Portal — Microsoft Endpoint Manager
  13. AI-based Privacy Management for Microsoft 365
  14. How to Manage Cloud Spend In Azure — With Your Endpoint of Choice
  15. Windows 11 Security — Our Hacker-in-Chief Runs Attacks and Shows Solutions
  16. App Modernization Options | Azure Migrate tool
  17. Microsoft Teams Phone — How to Set It Up
  18. Surface Pro 8 Hands-on Review + Updates to the Surface 2-in-1 Lineup
  19. Surface Laptop Studio Hands-on Review
  20. Windows 11: The Optimization and Performance Improvements
  21. Automate threat detection and response with Azure Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Defender
  22. Zero Trust for Data - Essentials Series - Episode 5
  23. Predictive AI and Marketing Automation in Dynamics 365
  24. Windows 365 admin setup and management tutorial for Cloud PCs
  25. Build and customize model-driven apps | Power Apps Studio Updates
  26. Hybrid cloud migration, modernization and unified management with Azure
  27. Windows 365, your Cloud PC | What it is, how it works, and how to set it up
  28. Zero Trust for Network & Infrastructure - Essentials Series - Episode 4
  29. How to present videos in Microsoft Teams meetings WITHOUT LAG using web streaming & PowerPoint Live
  30. Zero Trust, The Essentials video series
  31. Microsoft Viva, The Essentials video series
  32. Migrate & Modernize Linux VMs and Databases into Azure
  33. Microsoft Viva Insights | Improve productivity and wellbeing | Demo and tutorial, including set-up
  34. Microsoft Teams certified accessory tour | Modern Headsets, Speaker, Webcam & Surface Headphones 2+
  35. Zero Trust for Endpoints and Applications - Essentials Series - Episode 3
  36. Microsoft Viva Learning | Personalized learning experience through Microsoft 365
  37. Power Apps for ProDevs | APIs, DevOps & Publishing to Microsoft Teams
  38. Microsoft Project and Dynamics 365 Project Operations | Updates for 2021
  39. Microsoft Viva Connections | Curated Organization and Personal Experience
  40. Zero Trust Identity Controls - Essentials Series - Episode 2
  41. Control & Management of Microsoft Viva Topics
  42. Adopt a Zero Trust approach for security — Essentials Series — Episode 1
  43. Introduction to Microsoft Viva, an Employee Experience Platform
  44. Build fast, scalable data system on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale | Clearent
  45. Consolidate data to one source with Azure SQL Managed Instance | Komatsu
  46. How to use Power Platform’s advanced data backend for all your apps | Dataverse
  47. Share a video WITH AUDIO on a Mac using Microsoft Teams
  48. Build & Deploy to edge AI devices in minutes
  49. Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 | Details, Review, Tech & Design Specs
  50. Which Virtual Machine is best for your workload in Azure?
  51. Automate note-taking in Microsoft Teams with meeting transcription
  52. New unified tools to discover and assess your databases, .NET apps and VMs | Azure Migrate Updates
  53. Build Semantic Search into your apps | Latest in Azure Cognitive Search
  54. New controls to Govern the Power Platform
  55. Go Passwordless with FIDO2 keys and Temporary Access Pass | Hands-on tour in Azure AD
  56. Build collaborative Mixed Reality experiences with Microsoft Mesh
  57. Host webinars in Microsoft Teams | Take a deep dive on new presenter and attendee experiences
  58. How to use Microsoft Word and Teams as a teleprompter for presentations
  59. Build video, voice and chat apps that connect to Microsoft Teams | Azure Communication Services
  60. Set up a proactive, always-on service in Dynamics 365
  61. Latest Updates to Microsoft 365 Experiences