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Articles, guides and practical notes about Microsoft & Cloud, with useful context on what matters, how it works and where the interesting details are.
In 2026 the choice is less about which hypervisor is “best” and more about which operating model matches your licensing, management, storage and exit strategy. Hyper-V suits Microsoft-heavy estates; Proxmox fits Linux-first teams, especially with clearer subscription handling and newer distributed management.
Time-based backup immutability is now available for Azure SQL Database LTR backups: once the policy is enabled and locked, protected backups can’t be deleted or modified until the retention window ends. But it only covers backups created after the lock.
Microsoft lists CVE-2026-58644 as exploited in the wild. SharePoint Server operators should verify every farm meets the June fixed-build threshold, install the latest August cumulative updates and assess any previously exposed unpatched host for compromise.
Azure Site Recovery is not a single line item you can read off a pricing page and forget about. The licence is only part of the bill. Storage, transactions, outbound data transfer, test failovers and the way you architect recovery all affect the real Azure disaster recovery cost.
Microsoft has marked two SharePoint Server vulnerabilities as actively exploited. Organisations with internet-facing or previously exposed farms should patch to current builds, preserve evidence and assess whether attackers gained access before remediation.
Mirage2FA phishing infrastructure shows how criminals can relay a genuine Microsoft 365 sign-in, capture the resulting session and retain access after MFA. Defending against it requires phishing-resistant authentication and stronger session controls.
Microsoft Foundry Hosted agents on the initial public-preview backend reach their final documented support date today. Microsoft will not migrate them automatically, leaving teams to redeploy, rework identities and endpoints, and test session behaviour before cutover.
A newer Microsoft Defender security intelligence update appears to restore failed scans on affected Windows PCs, highlighting why rapidly delivered endpoint-protection updates need monitoring, staged deployment and clear recovery procedures.
Microsoft’s new time-based immutability for Azure SQL Database long-term retention backups makes them non-modifiable and non-erasable during the immutability period. That strengthens the trustworthiness of recovery points, but teams still need recovery discipline and tested restores—especially for Managed Instance.
Microsoft’s Instant Access snapshots for Azure Ultra Disk and Premium SSD v2 change the restore story in a small but operationally important way: snapshots can be used immediately for rapid disk creation before the background copy finishes, then later settle into standard durable snapshot storage. For teams designing backup, DR, and environment-refresh workflows, that reduces waiting time — but it does not remove the need to think carefully about durability, region-copy behaviour, and failure domains.
