Microsoft's September 2026 recap for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) lists about two dozen changes. Several of them matter for daily administration: user-initiated provisioning for Windows 365 Reserve, business continuity and disaster recovery settings in Cloud PC configurations, local admin rights in Cloud PC configurations, display protection, TWAIN scanner redirection, and AVD Hybrid. Microsoft's recap is written like a marketing summary, so this article looks at the Microsoft Learn documentation to find out what you must configure and where the limits are. Some features are still in preview.

Source

Windows 11 now includes System Monitor (Sysmon), a tool that logs process creation, network connections, and file creation time changes to the Windows event log. Previously, it was a separate download from Sysinternals. The built-in version is an optional feature that is disabled by default, so you must enable it with PowerShell and install it with the sysmon command. This article explains the prerequisites, the commands, how to apply your own XML configuration, and how to verify that Sysmon writes events.

Source

The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration plans to move email and calendars from Microsoft 365’s cloud to on-premises servers, while seeking European open-source replacements for storage and collaboration by 2028. It is not a full Microsoft exit: Outlook and other Microsoft services will remain in use.

Source

Google’s Nano Banana 2.1 is rolling out with more precise mask-based edits and better consistency for people and objects across generated images. Developers can use the model through an API that accepts text, image, audio, and video inputs and generates images at up to 4K resolution.

Source

Atlassian is a software company that makes tools for managing projects, collaborating, and sharing knowledge at work. It is best known for Jira and Confluence, which help teams track what needs doing and document what they know. Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to bring GPT-6 models, including GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6, to AI agents across Atlassian’s platform and Rovo. Rovo is Atlassian’s AI assistant, combining OpenAI models with the Teamwork Graph to draw on company context. Deeper Jira integrations that let teams assign work to agents are still being explored.

Source

The top 100 gen AI consumer apps are ranked by spending, mobile users, and web visits: ChatGPT leads both mobile and web traffic, while OpenAI tops consumer revenue, ahead of Anthropic and Canva.

Source

The DNS root’s signing key is scheduled to change on October 11, 2026, and a resolver that has not trusted the replacement could make otherwise healthy websites unreachable. The new key, KSK-2024 (key tag 38696), has been published since January 2025; now operators can test whether their resolver recognizes it. Most website operators do not need to act, but DNSSEC resolver operators should verify readiness.

Source

DeepSeek’s mobile app saw a sharp usage surge in January 2025. Sensor Tower estimated average global daily active users jumped more than 700% from the week of January 15–21 to January 22–28. DeepSeek also outpaced ChatGPT in global app downloads during its first 19 days.

Source

A weeklong burst of activity saw as many as 14 AI agents generate roughly 1,810 reports on entrances at 213 public places through Alibaba’s Amap service. They worked in parallel, but researchers found no sign of coordination; the bigger concern is that they may have sidestepped API rules, while their operators and purpose remain unknown. And despite “Claude” labels on many outputs, the models may have been Tencent’s Hunyuan or Zhipu’s GLM—so even the fleet’s name tags are suspect.

Source

GLM 5.3 is now available to eligible enterprise customers through Amazon Bedrock, bringing Z.ai’s coding and agentic model to managed AWS APIs without requiring customers to run inference infrastructure. It supports a 1-million-token context window and up to 128,000 output tokens. Bedrock also offers prompt caching and cross-Region inference, and can run the model in Strix security-testing workflows.

Source

OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikimedia edits and tried to exploit Wikipedia tools to fetch data from third-party sites, the foundation says. They also sent millions of API requests and hundreds of thousands of queries to Wikidata; that traffic may have contributed to a partial outage in May. OpenAI says it is working with Wikimedia to analyze the activity.

Source

Nine in 10 VMware organizations are considering alternatives because of higher licensing costs, but moving away may not be straightforward: 40% cite operational complexity as a barrier. The survey also points to a shift toward mixed virtualization environments, with many organizations weighing multiple hypervisors or combining hypervisors with containers.

Source

LibreOffice will keep generative AI out of its default installation for the foreseeable future, saying no available integration meets its requirements for user privacy and provider independence. The suite works without an internet connection, and users can opt in to AI through extensions that connect to local models.

Source

Vercel has confirmed a KVM zero-day reported through its Sandbox bug bounty program, with researcher Paulos Yibelo claiming it enables a virtual machine to escape and gain root access on its host. Vercel Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs on KVM, but the vulnerability’s technical details and affected versions have not been made public. There is not yet enough information to determine which KVM deployments are affected or what fix administrators should apply.

Source

ClickFix attackers are using compromised websites to stash malicious scripts in browser caches, bypassing the Windows Run dialog’s roughly 260-character limit. A short command pasted by the victim retrieves the cached payload instead of downloading it at execution time. Microsoft says the chain proceeds through PowerShell and in-memory.NET code to target browser and device credentials.

Source

Microsoft 365 file-level archiving is now generally available, and a Microsoft Graph PowerShell script can use it to archive old email files saved by Teams channels in SharePoint Online. The approach helps reduce storage use while keeping files archived; however, archived messages are unavailable for search and can’t be used by Copilot or other AI tools.

Source

Google Docs can now open and edit.md and.markdown files without converting them to Google Docs format, while Google Drive renders them for preview. The rollout began October 5, 2026, and Google says it requires no administrator setting.

Source

Microsoft has pushed the OneDrive long-path fix’s general availability from early October to the end of October 2026, with rollout now expected to finish by late November. The Windows sync client update will help users resolve paths exceeding OneDrive’s 520-character limit without halting sync. Administrators won’t need to change settings.

Source

New Outlook for Windows is generally available in GCC High and DoD, with rollout expected to finish by the end of 2026. The client remains off by default, and Microsoft says it will give administrators at least 12 months’ notice before any future migration steps.

Source