{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "MSBrief.com - Microsoft News for IT Admins", "home_page_url": "https://msbrief.com", "feed_url": "https://msbrief.com/feed.json", "description": "Curated Microsoft news: Patch Tuesday, CVEs, Azure updates, product launches, and admin insights.", "icon": "https://msbrief.com/favicon.svg", "authors": [ { "name": "MSBrief.com", "url": "https://msbrief.com" } ], "language": "en-US", "items": [ { "id": "https://office365itpros.com/2026/10/09/send-from-alias-finally-ga/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=send-from-alias-finally-ga", "url": "https://office365itpros.com/2026/10/09/send-from-alias-finally-ga/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=send-from-alias-finally-ga", "title": "Microsoft Finally Makes Send Mail from Alias Generally Available", "content_text": "Nearly five years after going into preview, Microsoft has made the send from alias feature for Exchange Online generally available. It\u2019s a very useful feature that eliminates the need to use a shared mailbox to be able to send messages with different email addresses. Microsoft has closed some functionality gaps since the preview started, but sending from an alias is not the same as sending from a mailbox\u2019s primary SMTP address. Some user training might be necessary!", "date_published": "2026-10-09T09:00:00+02:00", "tags": [ "M365", "Admin" ] }, { "id": "https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-365-family-and-premium-subscribers-will-soon-be-able-to-share-copilot-ai-benefits/?utm_source=rss", "url": "https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-365-family-and-premium-subscribers-will-soon-be-able-to-share-copilot-ai-benefits/?utm_source=rss", "title": "Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscribers will soon be able to share Copilot AI benefits", "content_text": "Microsoft is changing its Microsoft 365 Family and Premium tiers by extending Copilot AI capabilities to all linked family members. Read more...", "date_published": "2026-10-09T07:20:01+02:00", "tags": [ "Tech Press", "News" ] }, { "id": "https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/hands-on-xboxs-brand-new-pc-app-offers-big-performance-improvements", "url": "https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/hands-on-xboxs-brand-new-pc-app-offers-big-performance-improvements", "title": "Xbox\u2019s new PC app feels like the first real step toward a proper Windows gaming experience", "content_text": "VIDEO: Today, I got a sneak peek at an early version of the Xbox PC app rebuilt experience, and for some it might look quite familiar.", "date_published": "2026-10-09T04:39:58+02:00", "tags": [ "Windows", "Devices", "Xbox" ] }, { "id": "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=574430", "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=574430", "title": "[Launched] Generally Available: Managed StandardV2 NAT Gateway for AKS", "content_text": "AKS will now provision and manage a StandardV2 NAT Gateway for clusters using an AKS-managed virtual network.StandardV2 is now the default managed NAT Gateway SKU for new clusters in supported regions when using the managedNATGateway outbound type. 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The post Post-quantum authentication: Why organizations should start testing certificate ecosystems now appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.", "date_published": "2026-10-08T22:44:28+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "Analysis" ] }, { "id": "https://therecord.media/lawmakers-warn-of-google-spirit-ai-training-deal", "url": "https://therecord.media/lawmakers-warn-of-google-spirit-ai-training-deal", "title": "Lawmakers warn Google could expose Spirit Airlines data in $10 million AI training deal", "content_text": "The proposed sale would include about 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, employment contracts, employee and timecard records and payroll and tax information, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) said in a press release.", "date_published": "2026-10-08T22:27:00+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "Threat Intel", "News" ] }, { "id": "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=573691", "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=573691", "title": "[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in East US 3", "content_text": "Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the East US 3 Azure region. Learn more.", "date_published": "2026-10-08T21:56:31+02:00", "tags": [ "Azure", "Updates", "Releases" ] }, { "id": "https://www.csoonline.com/article/4232205/growing-pqc-at-the-edge-belies-deeper-quantum-readiness-challenges.html", "url": "https://www.csoonline.com/article/4232205/growing-pqc-at-the-edge-belies-deeper-quantum-readiness-challenges.html", "title": "Growing PQC at the edge belies deeper quantum-readiness challenges", "content_text": "The quantum threat is becoming an increasing concern for security leaders, but many may be mistaking protection at their website\u2019s front door for quantum readiness across their business. More than half (54%) of the world\u2019s top 1 million websites now support post-quantum key exchange, according to research from F5 Labs, an encouraging statistic given that just 27% of CISOs in a June KPMG survey said they are actively implementing post-quantum cryptography (PQC). But F5 Labs\u2019 State of PQC o", "date_published": "2026-10-08T21:05:00+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "Enterprise", "News" ] }, { "id": "https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33410", "url": "https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33410", "title": "Reconstructing AI Agent Activity: Two New Scripts for Forensic Review, (Thu, Oct 8th)", "content_text": "We just did a major update to FOR577 and added a lot of new material on day 5 about investigating AI usage in incident response. In the new material we dicsuss 8 of the most popular AI coding assistants and agents including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Copilot, Warp, Windsurf, and Qwen Code. I've been using Claude Code and a little bit of Codex, but I also have recently been playing w", "date_published": "2026-10-08T18:52:53+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "Analysis", "Patch Tuesday" ] }, { "id": "https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/pre-authenticated-tempauth-urls-are-retiring-move-to-microsoft-entra-id-tokens-before-april-1-2027/", "url": "https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/pre-authenticated-tempauth-urls-are-retiring-move-to-microsoft-entra-id-tokens-before-april-1-2027/", "title": "Pre-authenticated (tempauth) URLs are retiring: move to Microsoft Entra ID tokens before April 1, 2027", "content_text": "Starting April 1, 2027, affected Microsoft Graph file APIs will no longer return pre-authenticated URLs. Applications using these APIs must authenticate requests with Microsoft Entra ID access tokens. The post Pre-authenticated (tempauth) URLs are retiring: move to Microsoft Entra ID tokens before April 1, 2027 appeared first on Microsoft 365 Developer Blog.", "date_published": "2026-10-08T15:10:46+02:00", "tags": [ "M365", "Developer", "Graph" ] } ] }