Microsoft announced three updates for its cloud desktop products in May 2026: a 20% price cut for Windows 365 Business, a rename of Windows 365 Frontline to Windows 365 Flex, and a public preview of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Hybrid, which lets you run cloud-managed virtual desktops on your own on-premises servers. This article focuses on the technical aspects of these changes, particularly AVD Hybrid, which introduces meaningful new infrastructure options for organizations that cannot fully migrate workloads to Azure.

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Windows 365 Reserve is Microsoft's short-term Cloud PC solution for users whose primary physical device becomes unavailable. Since its general availability in December 2025, only IT admins could provision these Cloud PCs through Microsoft Intune. A public preview announced on April 28, 2026 adds an optional setting that lets users start the provisioning process themselves from the Windows App, without waiting for IT intervention.

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Fini Microsoft Azure, place au cloud souverain. Après des années de controverse liée au risque d'ingérence américaine, le Health Data Hub a officiellement annoncé confier l'hébergement des données de santé des Français à l'entreprise hexagonale Scaleway. L'épilogue d'un très long feuilleton politico-technologique.

Azure Migrate, Microsoft's cloud migration hub, gained a new capability in April 2026: automated, agentless discovery and assessment of SMB and NFS file shares hosted on Windows and Linux servers. The feature extends Azure Migrate's existing workload coverage — which already included servers, databases, and web apps — to file shares. It recommends which of Microsoft's two Azure Files storage tiers is appropriate for each share and estimates monthly costs. Previously, file share migration planning relied on manual scripts or spreadsheets. This article explains how the feature works, what you need to use it, and where its limitations lie.

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Microsoft announced the public preview of the Windows 365 connector for Microsoft Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps on April 2, 2026. The connector lets you build automated workflows around Windows 365 Cloud PCs — the cloud-hosted Windows virtual machines that Microsoft manages for individual users. Using prebuilt building blocks called actions and triggers, you can automate tasks such as notifying users when their Cloud PC is ready, bulk-managing provisioning policies, or reacting automatically to administrative events. The connector is currently in public preview and is classified as a premium connector, which has licensing implications described below.

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Microsoft has launched departmental billing for Microsoft 365 Backup, effective March 2, 2026, enabling organizations to configure billing policies, delegate administration, and implement chargeback models across different business units. This enhancement addresses enterprise demands for decentralized backup management while maintaining centralized IT governance and visibility.

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Azure Copilot Migration Agent is a new AI agent built into the Azure portal that assists with planning migrations from VMware, Hyper-V, and bare-metal servers to Azure. It works on top of Azure Migrate data and goes beyond answering questions: it can actively create business cases and assessments, apply tags to discovered servers, and generate deployable landing zone templates — all through natural language prompts. What it cannot do is execute the actual migration. Replication, test migrations, and cutover are performed in the Azure Migrate portal, not through the agent. The agent is currently in public preview.

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Microsoft Agent 365 is the control plane for AI agents in the enterprise: a set of capabilities built on Microsoft Entra, Purview, Defender XDR, and the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that gives IT and security teams a single location to observe, govern, manage, and secure AI agents — regardless of whether they were built with Microsoft tooling, open-source frameworks, or third-party platforms.

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Windows 365 Reserve and Windows 365 Boot are two complementary Microsoft cloud services that, when combined, let employees resume work on a preconfigured Cloud PC from any Windows 11 device without additional setup. Windows 365 Reserve provides short-term Cloud PC access for users whose primary physical device is unavailable. Windows 365 Boot redirects the Windows 11 sign-in experience directly to a Cloud PC, though administrators can configure policies to allow users to access the physical device's local OS if needed.

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Microsoft Sentinel is Azure's cloud-native SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automated Response) platform. The Codeless Connector Framework (CCF) — formerly known as the Codeless Connector Platform — is the mechanism that enables partners, customers, and developers to build data connectors without writing infrastructure code. The newly public-preview CCF Push feature extends this framework with an event-driven ingestion pattern that sends security data directly to Sentinel as events occur, bypassing the latency inherent in traditional polling. This article explains what CCF Push is, how it differs from pull connectors, which Azure resources it automatically provisions, and how you configure an application to push data using the Log Ingestion API and OAuth 2.0.

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Microsoft has announced that moderation approvals in Exchange Online are transitioning from voting buttons to Actionable Messages Adaptive Cards, bringing Approve | Reject buttons directly into email bodies. This update enables moderators to approve or reject messages from any Outlook client, including Windows, macOS, web, and mobile. The rollout begins in late February 2026 and concludes by early April 2026 for Worldwide and GCC environments. The legacy voting button method remains available until July 31, 2026, after which Actionable Messages Adaptive Cards will be the only supported method.

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Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft Graph User Configuration API that enables you to manage custom settings and configuration data for user mailboxes in Exchange Online. This preview API provides full CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations for user configuration objects, allowing you to store application state, settings, and metadata associated with specific mail folders. This guide shows you how to access and use this API with PowerShell.

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Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations became generally available in January, providing data security teams with AI-powered tools to identify, investigate, and mitigate sensitive data risks across Microsoft 365 environments. The solution addresses the challenge of managing 220 zettabytes of organizational data while facing over 12,000 confirmed breaches annually by streamlining investigations that previously took weeks or months into hours.

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Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of centralized RDP Shortpath configuration using Intune and Group Policy (GPO). RDP Shortpath is a UDP-based direct transport protocol that establishes connections between Remote Desktop clients and session hosts, reducing latency and improving reliability for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PCs. You can now centrally configure this feature using Group Policy and Microsoft Intune, eliminating the need for manual per-host configuration.

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Starting March 2026, Microsoft Entra ID will introduce passkey profiles and synced passkeys to general availability, enabling group-based authentication configurations with granular control over device-bound and synced passkeys. Microsoft will automatically enable passkey profiles for tenants that don't opt in during the initial rollout, with existing settings preserved to maintain their current security posture.

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