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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An ex-Microsoft engineer recently detailed how Azure’s rushed launch, talent exodus, and AI hype left Microsoft’s cloud fragile and struggling to compete.

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 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 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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Microsoft announces the general availability of the Azure Test Run Hub, which delivers a new interface for managing test execution in Azure DevOps Test Plans.

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