{ "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/2026/08/14/external-services-dlp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=external-services-dlp", "url": "https://office365itpros.com/2026/08/14/external-services-dlp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=external-services-dlp", "title": "Expanding Purview DLP and Information Protection to Foreign Platforms", "content_text": "Microsoft Purview is expanding its ability to process data from external services such as Google Workspace and Box through DLP policies and Information Protection auto-labeling. Everything depends on Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps connectors to fetch data from the external services to Azure to be processed there. This is an esoteric play that will appeal to certain enterprise Microsoft 365 tenants with the need for a common protection strategy across multiple cloud platforms.", "date_published": "2026-08-14T09:00:00+02:00", "tags": [ "M365", "Admin" ] }, { "id": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/979871/microsoft-copilot-mico-retired", "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/979871/microsoft-copilot-mico-retired", "title": "Microsoft\u2019s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot", "content_text": "Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have \"more to react to,\" as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last [\u2026]", "date_published": "2026-08-13T23:53:09+02:00", "tags": [ "Tech Press" ] }, { "id": "https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/the-xbox-one-s-is-the-best-value-ticket-to-saying-no-to-streaming-services-and-going-all-in-on-physical-media", "url": "https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/the-xbox-one-s-is-the-best-value-ticket-to-saying-no-to-streaming-services-and-going-all-in-on-physical-media", "title": "The Xbox One S is the best value ticket to saying \"no\" to streaming services and going all-in on physical media", "content_text": "As we're led into a digital future where we'll own nothing, what about ignoring it and buying movies on Blu-ray again. Where the old Xbox One S remains an excellent value 4K UHD Blu-ray player.", "date_published": "2026-08-13T20:11:18+02:00", "tags": [ "Windows", "Devices", "Xbox" ] }, { "id": "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-patches-legacyhive-windows-zero-day-vulnerability/", "url": "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-patches-legacyhive-windows-zero-day-vulnerability/", "title": "Microsoft patches LegacyHive Windows zero-day vulnerability", "content_text": "Microsoft has released security patches to address a Windows zero-day vulnerability known as \"LegacyHive,\" disclosed after the July 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]", "date_published": "2026-08-13T19:46:20+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "News" ] }, { "id": "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=568830", "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=568830", "title": "[Launched] Generally Available: Control plane metrics collection for AKS with Managed Prometheus", "content_text": "Control plane metrics collection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), powered by Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus, is now generally available.This capability gives AKS customers native observability into key managed control plane components, in", "date_published": "2026-08-13T18:19:56+02:00", "tags": [ "Azure", "Updates", "Releases" ] }, { "id": "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=569281", "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=569281", "title": "[Launched] Generally Available: Live Resize for Shared Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Data Disks", "content_text": "We\u2019re excited to announce the GA\nof Live Resize for shared Premium\nSSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra data disks. This feature allows you to dynamically\nexpand the storage capacity of your disks without any disruption to your\napplications. To optimize costs, you can", "date_published": "2026-08-13T18:17:41+02:00", "tags": [ "Azure", "Updates", "Releases" ] }, { "id": "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-45592", "url": "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-45592", "title": "CVE-2026-45592 Windows Internet (wininet.dll) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability", "content_text": "Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.", "date_published": "2026-08-13T16:00:00+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "CVE", "Advisories", "Patch Tuesday" ] }, { "id": "https://office365itpros.com/2026/08/13/licensing-gaps-entra-id/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=licensing-gaps-entra-id", "url": "https://office365itpros.com/2026/08/13/licensing-gaps-entra-id/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=licensing-gaps-entra-id", "title": "Entra Admin Center Flags Licensing Problems with Conditional Access", "content_text": "The Entra admin center is flagging licensing gaps for conditional access. The messages are informational, not the beginning of a new automated billing procedure to charge tenants when Entra ID notices that some accounts use conditional access policies when they don\u2019t have a license. In this article, we discuss the product license insight and how Microsoft measures conditional access usage, and show how to use PowerShell to find who\u2019s using conditional access", "date_published": "2026-08-13T09:00:00+02:00", "tags": [ "M365", "Admin" ] }, { "id": "https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsofts-patch-tuesday-deluge-continues", "url": "https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsofts-patch-tuesday-deluge-continues", "title": "Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Deluge Continues With August Updates", "content_text": "Security experts say prioritization should be the main focus for the August updates, not the massive CVE volume.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T23:42:34+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "Incidents" ] }, { "id": "https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/microsoft-plugs-nearly-400-security-holes/", "url": "https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/microsoft-plugs-nearly-400-security-holes/", "title": "Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes", "content_text": "Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today.", "date_published": "2026-08-11T23:28:35+02:00", "tags": [ "Security", "Incidents" ] } ] }