Microsoft AI Weekly #6: Copilot, GitHub, Azure AI & more

👋 Hi, here’s this week’s roundup of Microsoft AI news, where AI is moving from assistance to action. This week, agents, Copilot, MCP, and AI-powered development take center stage, alongside new approaches to enterprise AI security and governance. Here’s what caught our attention.

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⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Turn conversations into code with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams • Arnav Gupta

• SharePoint Showcase: 5 Ways Organizations Improve Business Processes with Copilot in SharePoint • Sophia Peng

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage • Christopher Harrison

• 📺 Beyond the Basics: What GitHub Can Do Today • Microsoft Developer and Scott Sauber

• 📺 Build Modern and AI-Ready Apps with SQL and GitHub Copilot in VS Code • Visual Studio Code and Yo-Lei Chen

• 📺 Connect Playwright MCP to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and use Copilot to test a Spring Boot application through a real browser • Visual Studio Code and Rory Preddy

• 📺 Debugger Agentic Workflow Gets a Test-Driven Upgrade • Microsoft Visual Studio and Sireesha Pisipati

• 📺 MSFT ONEDEV 0426 Q9 16x9 v1 • Microsoft Developer and Amanda Silver

• 📺 Show, Hide, & Pin Any Model • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Stop Writing Prompts. Start Writing Specs. • Microsoft Developer and Roelant Dieben

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio - August Update

• Global model policy generally available

• GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available

• Enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Moving beyond release waves with the AI at Work roadmap • Richard Riley

• Try Azure SRE Agent with no always-on charges • Nir Mashkowski

• SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update • Vesa Juvonen

• Start light, scale intentionally: Choosing the right Microsoft agent architecture • David Hirning

• 📺 Agent Optimizer, Agent Plugins 1.0 & Sonnet 4.6 Sunset • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 Build Intelligent Agents with Work IQ, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ • Microsoft Developer and Prashant G Bhoyar

• 📺 Building an End-to-End Enterprise AI Platform on Azure • Microsoft Developer and Ehsan Eskandari

• 📺 Building your own MCP server • Microsoft Developer and Stuart van der Lee

• 📺 Closing the Loop: Feedback based Learning for Agentic RAG on Azure • Microsoft Developer and PRIYANKA SHAH

• 📺 What does it really take to ship an AI agent? • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• 📺 Build AI apps with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale • Microsoft Developer, Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward

• 📺 Meet Azure SQL Hyperscale • Microsoft Developer, Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane • Igor Sakhnov

• Agent Hooks: An open, framework-neutral AI governance contract • Mohammad Abuomar, Sarah Bird and Caitie McCaffrey

• Securing AI agents in the enterprise: • Mark Armstrong

• Secure AI Agents in Azure: AI Gateway, Tools, and Trust • Microsoft Developer and David Okeyode

• Practical scenarios, capability mappings, and guidance to secure AI end to end across your estate

Copilot Studio

• 📺 From Idea to Agent in Minutes: Copilot Studio + Claude Code • Microsoft Developer and Renato Romao de Souza

Upcoming Events

• 📺 Get ready for PPCC26 with Mary Myers! • Mary Myers

• 📺 Join us for MCP Live! Sept 9th! • Microsoft Developer

• 📺 PowerPlatform and Copilot Studio: PPCC26 Product Weeks are here! • Microsoft Power Platform

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🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Context Is Everything: Building Agents That Know Your Work Context • Sébastien Levert

• Import Agent Builder Agents into WIQD Projects Safely • Sébastien Levert

• Promote a Copilot Agent Across Environments with WIQD • Sébastien Levert

• Validating an Inherited Declarative Agent with WIQD • Sébastien Levert

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Evaluating, controlling, and optimizing AI agents with ASSERT and ACS • Chang Liu

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