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Security

Azure Day 2026 - Recap: A Practical Tour of Defender for Cloud (and Where to Start)

Most organizations own more Defender capability than they have actively turned on. From Phil Kinsley's roadshow session: what Defender for Cloud actually is, why CSPM is the place to start, what makes the paid tier worth the upgrade, and the data-readiness conversation that is taking over half of his calendar.

May 27, 2026 · 7 min read

Security

Azure Day 2026 - Recap: Defender Orchestration Is Where Your Security Stack Earns Its Keep

The Defender stack works through the orchestration that sits on top of it. Most mid-market organizations cannot economically run the day-to-day SOC operations in-house. Series wrap from last week's Azure Day roadshow: castle defense, the MXDR economics, and a 90-day sequence pulling the five-post series together.

May 27, 2026 · 4 min read

Microsoft 365

Azure Day 2026 - Recap: Endpoint Strategy in 2026 With One Plane and Three Delivery Models

Microsoft is collapsing physical PCs, virtual desktops, and Cloud PCs into a single management plane. The job for IT is matching the right delivery model to each user type and getting off the duplicate tools and processes that come from running two of everything. From Dustin's session: how to pick between Intune-managed devices, AVD, and Windows 365, plus what is coming next on the roadmap.

May 27, 2026 · 7 min read

Azure

Azure Day 2026 - Recap: The Cloud Foundation Decides What Is Possible Everywhere Else

Every Azure environment I see succeed has done the unglamorous foundation work first. From last week's Azure roadshow: the five questions IT leaders are actually asking about Azure in 2026, the three failure modes that wreck adoption, and how the Cloud Adoption Framework plus landing zones answer all three.

May 27, 2026 · 7 min read

Azure

Azure Day 2026 - Recap: The Real Value of Cloud Modernization Is What You Leave Behind

Cost savings in nearly every Azure case study come more from the things that stopped running than from the things that landed in the cloud. From Dustin Meany's roadshow session: where technical debt actually comes from, the five modernization patterns that move the needle, and why modernization is the precondition for every meaningful AI conversation.

May 27, 2026 · 5 min read

AI

Copilot Cowork introduces Mobile Experience, Enterprise Plugins, and Skills

Microsoft shipped Skills, plugins, and a real mobile experience for Copilot Cowork yesterday. The capabilities have lived in private agents for a while; what's new is that they now run inside Microsoft 365, governed by the identity and security plane you already trust. Here is what each of the three updates enables in practice.

May 7, 2026 · 5 min read