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Build a Fully Offline RAG App with Foundry Local: No Cloud Required | Microsoft Community Hub A practical guide to building an on-device AI support agent using Retrieval-Augmented Generation, JavaScript, and Microsoft Foundry Local. The Problem: AI...

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Getting Started with Behave: Writing Cucumber Tests in VS Code | Microsoft Community Hub What is Behave? Behave is a BDD test framework for Python that allows you to write tests in plain English using Given–When–Then syntax, backed by Python step...

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Securing devices faster with hotpatch updates on by default - Windows IT Pro Blog Get Windows devices secure faster with hotpatch updates enabled by default in Microsoft Intune.  

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Honoring Women Innovators: How Marisa Redd Is Expanding Childcare Access Through Technology | Microsoft Community Hub This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating a leader who is using technology to open doors for families and strengthen her community. In Austin, access...

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Learning Zone spotlight: How women won the vote | Microsoft Community Hub A monthly spotlight from the Learning Zone collection, featuring ready-to-use lessons that bring timely historical context and structured classroom...

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"March update: What’s new for partners in AI Business Solutions" techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Partner... #Microsoft #techcommunity

"Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry, MCP, Aspire를 활용한 실전 예제 만들기" buff.ly/oqJjcjm%EB%A... #Microsoft #techcommunity

"Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry, MCP, Aspire を使った実践的な AI アプリを構築するサンプルが登場" techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureDe... #Microsoft #techcommunity

Partner Blog | Introducing Microsoft 365 E7: The Frontier Suite | Microsoft Community Hub Frontier Firms—those who adopt an AI-first approach as a core part of their business strategy—are shaping the future of work, which is increasingly...

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Introducing effective settings: See security configurations enforced on your device | Microsoft Community Hub See exactly which security configurations are enforced on your device Security teams spend significant time defining policies for Microsoft Defender security...

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Frontline shared mode expands to Germany West Central & Switzerland North Deploy shared Cloud PCs in new locations—Windows 365 Frontline Shared is now available in Germany West Central & Switzerland North

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Bringing AI assistance to basic plans in Microsoft Planner | Microsoft Community Hub Learn about the official renaming of Project Manager Agent to Planner Agent, and its availability across both plan types.

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Assigning Process Accountability to Group Policy Refreshes | Microsoft Community Hub Hey All, Gaurav and Itay here with some updates to the Group Policy Service debug logging. What if you one day noticed that you had machines excessively...

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Upcoming Compute API Change: Always return non-null securityType | Microsoft Community Hub Starting with Azure Compute API version 2025‑11‑01, Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets will always return a non‑null securityType value in API...

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Understanding Hash Join Memory Usage and OOM Risks in PostgreSQL | Microsoft Community Hub Background: Why Memory Usage May Exceed work_mem work_mem is commonly assumed to be a hard upper bound on per‑query memory usage. However, for Hash Join...

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Resource onboarding using Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode | Microsoft Community Hub Previously on our epic saga: we unlocked Virtualization Mode, traversed the lore of two modes, and upgraded our management platform to vMode. With these...

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Check Point and LoadSpring offer transactable solutions in Microsoft Marketplace | Microsoft Community Hub Microsoft partners like Check Point Software Technologies and LoadSpring Solutions deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly...

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From draft to done: agentic Copilot in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint | Microsoft Community Hub Copilot is now agentic in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, collaborating with you to take multi-step actions directly in your files. Turn drafts into...

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A closer look at Work IQ | Microsoft Community Hub Work IQ is the intelligence layer that personalizes Microsoft 365 Copilot to you and your organization.  

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Copilot in Outlook: New agentic experiences for email and calendar | Microsoft Community Hub In Outlook, Copilot helps you go from intent to execution across email and calendar—without losing context or creating extra steps. Copilot in Outlook is...

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AI Inferencing in Air-Gapped Environments | Microsoft Community Hub If you had to point out the top trends of IT these days, two strong candidates would be Generative AI and Cybersecurity. Especially around the latter,...

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Can Your M365 Copilot Offer Actually Win Customer Deals? | Microsoft Community Hub Assess your M365 Copilot offer against 35+ Microsoft guidance rules—get results in minutes. 

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The Nightmare of renewing NDES Enrollment Agent Certificates | Microsoft Community Hub First introduced in Windows Server 2008, NDES spent many years as a niche technology. Over recent years, it has made an unexpected comeback driven by...

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Stop Burning Money in Azure Storage | Microsoft Community Hub Audience: Engineers, Architects, FinOps teams (and anyone whose finance team sends "friendly" cost emails)   Your blobs called. They want to talk about...

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Microsoft 365 Copilot can replace Power BI optimization experts today | Microsoft Community Hub Slow and inefficient Power BI reports are a widespread cause of low customer satisfaction, bloated costs, wasted compute capacity, and increased total cost...

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"Modernizing On‑Prem File Servers: Azure Storage Mover and File Sync" buff.ly/i4BDggJ%E2%8... #Microsoft #techcommunity

"The economics of enterprise AI: What the Forrester TEI study reveals about Microsoft Foundry" azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/t... #Microsoft #Azure

Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry | Microsoft Community Hub Today, we’re thrilled to announce that OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry: a model designed to help organizations move from...

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