By surveying workers and AI experts, this paper gets at a key issue: there is both overlap and substantial mismatches between what workers want AI to do & what AI is likely to do. AI is going to change work. It is critical that we take an active role in shaping how it plays out.

The Microsoft Docs MCP Server is a cloud-hosted service that enables MCP hosts like GitHub Copilot and Cursor to search and retrieve accurate information directly from Microsoft's official documentation. github.com/MicrosoftDocs/…

A misunderstood factor in AI adoption in companies is what risk means in organizations I find the question is less "who is accountable if AI gets something wrong?" (often just the user) & more "who is willing to bear the responsibility for adapting our processes & structure"?

The Guide to the Microsoft Active Directory Forest Recovery Guide semperis.com/resources/guid… by Sean Deuby Sean Deuby Semperis

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In this blog post about European Sovereign Cloud is an announcement of Microsoft 365 Local blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/06/1… (which sounds like Exchange and Sharepoint on Azure Local)

My take on the problem of AI in organizations (though not specific to agents) is that companies are going to need to experiment themselves: oneusefulthing.org/p/making-ai-wo…

How to setup conditional access reauthentication policy for Privileged Identity Management techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/itopstalk…

This paper shows the same effect as other studies of "cheating" with AI - if you use AI to do the work (as opposed to using it as a tutor), you don't learn as much. But note: the results are specific to the essay task - not a generalized statement about LLMs making people dumb.

Network trace analysis focusing on the Kerberos authentication protocol with a demonstration of authentication requests, ticket grants, and service authentication. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/coreinfra…

Azure Front Door rules engine scenarios and configurations techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurenetw…

Design principles for AI workloads on Azure learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/we…

The Zero Trust Commandments standard has recently been published in markdown format (no login/account required) digital-portfolio.opengroup.org/security-stand…

1) The most clear-cut finding is fairly obvious and intuitive. If you tell people to write an essay with an LLM, they will obviously not remember what they "wrote" (or likely, wholesale copy/paste/edited from a chatbot) as well as someone *not* using an LLM.

Both true: (A) If you outsource homework to AI you will learn less & (B) If you use AI as a tutor as part of instruction, you can learn more Whenever a paper showing (A) comes out, X talk is about AI destroying our brain. When a (B) paper, it is all about AI killing school. Sigh

Parameters for joining the Microsoft Security Update Validation Program. This program tests security updates prior to their release and provide feedback on usability, bugs, and results. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-i…

How to investigate Phishing Incidents in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/coreinfra…

Oh to have been a fly on the wall listening to the conversation at this table

The Reality of Being a Cloud Engineer youtube.com/watch?v=L3bL-0…