Modern Work Weekly - Week of 2026-07-21
Passkeys become the default in Entra ID, Entra Backup and Recovery hits GA, and advanced Intune Suite capabilities land in M365 E3/E5 - a dense week for identity hardening and endpoint licensing.
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Modern Work Weekly — Week of 2026-07-14
A light data week dominated by MSRC vulnerability disclosures for gawk and node-tar, plus an OWA Light retirement announcement that Exchange Server admins need to plan for.
Read digest →Modern Work Weekly — Week of 2026-07-07
Copilot Cowork goes GA worldwide with Claude Sonnet 5 and Sales Agent in tow, while five new CVEs land in AI and TLS libraries that may touch your supply chain.
Read digest →Modern Work Weekly — Week of 2026-06-30
Six CVEs land across libxml2, GNU gzip, attr, and acl for Linux-adjacent workloads, Intune's June release doubles down on AI-era endpoint hygiene, and a malicious Chromium extension spoofing Perplexity AI is actively redirecting browser search. EWS retirement remains on track for its October 2026 deadline.
Read digest →Modern Work Weekly — Week of 2026-06-23
EWS retirement hits its final phase with a hard October 2026 deadline, Intune Suite advanced capabilities land in M365 E3/E5 by August 1, and three Entra ID legacy auth controls are heading for retirement — this week is heavy on deadlines and migration obligations.
Read digest →Modern Work Weekly — Week of 2026-06-16
Entra Tenant Governance surfaces shadow tenants, Purview DSPM for AI hits GA, and computer-using agents in Copilot Studio are production-ready — a feature-dense week with meaningful capability unlocks across identity, data, and automation.
Read digest →Modern Work Weekly — Week of 2026-05-19
Dirty Frag is being actively exploited on Linux endpoints. Storm-2949 proves credentials alone are enough to wipe a cloud environment. Know what needs action now.
Read digest →Modern Work Weekly — Week of 2026-05-17
Two hard June deadlines, hotpatch going default across all eligible devices, and Agent 365 is now the live control plane for AI governance. This week has teeth.
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