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Developing AI solutions on Microsoft Azure blueprint survey opportunity
Greetings! Microsoft is considering a credential for Developing AI solutions on Microsoft Azure, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by February 23, 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John Sowles at josowles@microsoft.com or Don Tanedo at dtanedo@microsoft.com. Developing AI solutions on Microsoft Azure blueprint survey link: https://microsoftlearning.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_easBwCCKSwxGyZ8GitHub Advanced Security Blueprint Opportunity
GitHub is updating a credential for GitHub Advanced Security, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by February 13, 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Alicia Gorriaran at aliciagorriaran@github.com. GitHub Advance Security blueprint survey link: https://microsoftlearning.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0wTt0thjYaTGe8e
Microsoft unscheduled breaks vs Pearson proctor enforcement — candidates getting revoked
I’m starting this thread because the Microsoft “unscheduled breaks” feature is documented and available in the exam UI, but enforcement and support handling appear inconsistent in real OnVUE sessions. Example case: Exam: SC-401 via Pearson VUE OnVUE Date/time: 25 Jan 2026 1:00 PM (Australia/Melbourne) I initiated an unscheduled break through the exam UI: Take a break, then Start Break The break screen displayed, the timer continued running, I returned after about 3 minutes and resumed The session was revoked with messaging implying a policy/security violation Pearson case: 33927366 Why this matters: The published policy and the exam UI support unscheduled breaks, but some candidates still get revoked and then receive boilerplate responses referencing “scheduled breaks,” which doesn’t match the Microsoft unscheduled break feature. What I’m asking Microsoft / the community: Clarify the authoritative rule: if an unscheduled break is started in the UI, is it considered an approved break state for stepping away from webcam view? Enforcement: can revocation decisions be based on OnVUE telemetry (timestamps for Start Break, break state entry, resume) rather than proctor interpretation? Escalation path: what is the official fastest route for remediation when a revocation occurs even though the break was started in the UI? Operational guidance: best practices to reduce risk (for example, what exact “break state” confirmation should candidates wait for before stepping away)? Reference policy article: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/skills-hub-blog/unscheduled-breaks-now-available-in-most-exams-without-requesting-in-advance/3287005 If others have been impacted, please share: Exam, date, whether you clicked Start Break in the UI, and the resolution path that worked (voucher/refund/retest, and which channel).Intelligent App Builder Blueprint Survey Opportunity
Greetings! Microsoft is considering a certification for the Intelligent App Builder role, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by February 10 th , 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John Sowles at josowles@microsoft.com or Don Tanedo at dtanedo@microsoft.com. Intelligent App Builder blueprint survey link: https://microsoftlearning.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8cyBB5RmAQ9EF8O Thank you!Microsoft Applied Skills: assessment labs and support
Hello. I would like to report one problem: it often happens that an assessment lab for a Microsoft Applied Skill is planned for retirement on a specific day and the same lab is "undergoing maintenance" for a long time period, but that lab ends up not being available anymore before its final retirement. In addition to this, no information are shared and there is no way to monitor the availability of an assessment lab: the status post for Applied Skills Assessment Status that was available in the past is not working anymore and that post was not regularly updated as well. This is something that has already happened in the past. Is it possible to improve the way the information related to the availability of Applied Skills are shared? Also it would be appreciated if the unavailability of an assessment lab could be taken into the account before retiring one lab: postponing the retirement to compensate for the lab's unavailability due to the "undergoing maintenance" would be good and really appreciated. Bye.Azure AI Fundamentals Blueprint Survey opportunity
Greetings! Microsoft is updating a credential for Azure AI Fundamentals, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by February 9, 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John Sowles at josowles@microsoft.com or Don Tanedo at dtanedo@microsoft.com. Azure AI Fundamentals blueprint survey link: https://microsoftlearning.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eV7EHxY9btxKeWiDeveloping Azure AI Apps and Agents Blueprint Survey Opportunity
Greetings! Microsoft is considering a credential for Developing Azure AI Apps and Agents, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by February 9, 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. You may send this to people external to Microsoft as well. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John Sowles at josowles@microsoft.com or Don Tanedo at dtanedo@microsoft.com. Developing Azure AI Apps and Agents blueprint survey link: https://microsoftlearning.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_erj9Z9M4h3KKkwSCybersecurity for Business Professional Blueprint Survey Opportunity
Greetings! Microsoft is considering a credential for Cybersecurity for Business Professional, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by January 29, 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. You may send this to people external to Microsoft as well. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John Sowles at josowles@microsoft.com or Don Tanedo at dtanedo@microsoft.com. Cybersecurity for Business Professional blueprint survey link: https://microsoftlearning.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvwduCJLaOlIHtQBuild AI-Powered Sales Solutions Blueprinting Survey Opportunity
Greetings! Microsoft is considering a certification for the Build AI-Powered Sales Solutions role, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by January 26 th , 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John Sowles at josowles@microsoft.com or Don Tanedo at dtanedo@microsoft.com. Build AI-Powered Sales Solutions blueprint survey link: https://microsoftlearning.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJfqHNUQ2h72NW6Season of AI - MCP
The Azure Cloud Commanders Skilling Room is delivering a free Workshop - Season of MCP so make sure to register and join us! Join us for Season of AI – MCP, a global, community-driven initiative by Microsoft developers, created for developers. This event is all about hands-on learning, collaboration, and innovation with Model Context Protocol (MCP). This session is your chance to: 🤝 Connect with like-minded innovators in your local community 💡 Learn how MCP works and how to build smarter AI-powered experiences 🛠 Work through C# guided labs and exercises 🚀 Exchange ideas, share challenges, and inspire new projects https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/event/905f6364-959b-4f0a-bb85-10c14d665ed6/season-of-ai---mcp/4468678
Taking Microsoft Fabric from POC to Production: Real World Lessons Learned
Hi everyone, I wanted to share some practical lessons learned from a real-world Microsoft Fabric implementation where we transitioned from an initial proof-of-concept to a fully operational, production-grade analytics platform supporting reporting and advanced analytics use cases. Architecture decisions early on made a significant difference. Defining a clear Medallion structure (Bronze, Silver, Gold) upfront helped set expectations around data quality, ownership, and consumption patterns. In practice, we found that being disciplined about what belongs in each layer reduced downstream rework and simplified troubleshooting as data volumes and use cases grew. Performance optimization was an ongoing process rather than a one-time task. As usage expanded, we had to iteratively tune ingestion patterns, storage layout, and semantic models especially when leveraging Direct Lake for reporting. Understanding query patterns, refresh strategies, and model design trade-offs was critical to maintaining consistent performance at scale. Governance proved essential for adoption. Implementing access controls, lineage, and certified datasets early helped build trust with business users and avoided the perception of Fabric as “just another data lake.” Clear ownership and metadata standards made it easier for teams to confidently self-serve analytics without compromising data integrity. Operational readiness often gets underestimated. Beyond building pipelines, we had to focus on monitoring, cost visibility, deployment practices, and support processes to ensure the platform could be sustained in production. Treating Fabric as an enterprise platform rather than a POC environment was a key mindset shift. I’m interested to hear from others in the community who have taken Microsoft Fabric into production. Have you encountered similar challenges around architecture, performance, governance, or operations? What approaches worked well for you, and what lessons would you share with teams starting their Fabric journey? Looking forward to learning from the community’s experiences.
.range in VBA with equation
There may be other ways to solve this. I want C3 to be a dropdown list, when I run the macro I want to grab the selection and move it to wsdatabase. However, it moves the entire dropdown list. My solution was to make F3=C3 for when the macro runs. Using the below, however, I get #REF! in wsdatabase. IF F3 is just data it is fine. How can I make this work if F3 is an equation? wsinput.Range("f3").Copy wsdatabase.Range("A" & nextrow) 'Copy date
Microsoft Word ignores WebDAV LOCK timeout value since version 2509 (2024)
We're experiencing an issue where Microsoft Word (version 2509+) is ignoring the server-specified timeout value in WebDAV LOCK responses. EXPECTED BEHAVIOR (per RFC 4918): Our WebDAV server returns a LOCK response with a 5-minute timeout. Word should send LOCK refresh requests before this timeout expires to maintain the lock. ACTUAL BEHAVIOR (Word 2509+): Word is using its own internal timing (approximately 43 minutes) regardless of the server-specified timeout. Sessions expire on the server after 5 minutes without refresh, causing data loss and "session expired" errors for users. EVIDENCE: - Server LOCK response includes: Second-300 (5 minutes) - Server logs show no LOCK refresh requests from Word until approximately 43 minutes after initial lock - Previous Word versions (pre-2509) correctly respected the server timeout - Issue affects multiple customers who upgraded to Word 2509+ IMPACT: Users lose work when editing documents in Word via WebDAV because sessions expire without Word refreshing the lock. QUESTIONS: 1. Is this an intentional change in Word's WebDAV client behavior? 2. If so, where is this documented? 3. Is there a registry setting or policy to restore the previous behavior? REPRO STEPS: 1. Set up a WebDAV server that returns Second-300 in LOCK responses 2. Open a document in Word 2509+ via WebDAV 3. Monitor server logs for LOCK refresh requests 4. Observe that Word does not send LOCK refresh until approximately 43 minutes (far exceeding the 300s timeout) Thank you for any guidance.Duplicate Microsoft Forms
我在複製我的Microsoft Forms時，出現we are having trouble getting your documents，然後我就無法讀取我所有的問卷檔案了，想虛心請教各位因如何解決? TRANSLATION: When I was copying my Microsoft Forms, I encountered the error message "We are having trouble getting your documents," and then I was unable to read all my questionnaire files. I would like to humbly ask for your help on how to resolve this issue.
Provenance at Scale | The Trust Imprint Protocol for Persistent Agent Identity-Revocable Authority
Executive summary Autonomy without identity is a technical blind spot with real consequences. I published the Sovereign Agent Manifesto (V2026) and a Technical Announcement for the Trust Imprint Protocol, a protocol-level design that binds an agent’s authority, semantics, and evidentiary history to a persistent, revocable identity. The design is implemented, tested, and supported by a substantial Success Corpus that documents operational behavior and edge cases. Why this matters to Microsoft engineers and platform teams Modern orchestration and cloud AI services solve chaining, memory, and tool invocation. What they rarely solve is who the agent actually is when it acts across sessions, tenants, and cloud boundaries. Without identity primitives, long-running agents are ephemeral: they accumulate state but cannot prove continuity, inherit bounded authority from a human origin, or present auditable lineage for decisions. The Trust Imprint Protocol supplies practical primitives that can be integrated into Azure AI stacks, Copilot extensions, and serverless orchestration to make agentic systems accountable and verifiable. Technical highlights Handshake primitive — deterministic mechanism for an agent to inherit bounded authority from a human operator. SIK Secure Identity Key — a revocable, persistent identity token that survives restarts, migrations, and scaling events. Deterministic semantic scope — a constrained interpretation layer so an agent’s intent and meaning remain auditable. Evidence corpus — a 900+ item Success Corpus demonstrating operational behaviors, edge cases, and revocation scenarios. Practical integration ideas for Azure and Microsoft tooling Identity middleware that attaches SIK metadata to every action, designed to interoperate with Azure AD and managed identities. Provenance layer in orchestration engines such as Durable Functions and Logic Apps to record handshake events, revocation signals, and evidence pointers. Verification API for downstream services to validate an agent’s identity and recent behavioral record before accepting high-risk actions. Example scenarios: accountable multi-agent coordination, enterprise automation with revocable authority, and reproducible research experiments requiring verifiable agent identity. What I’m asking from this community I welcome practical feedback, integration ideas, and collaborators who care about agent accountability. Specific asks: Engineers to prototype middleware for SIK propagation in Azure SDKs. Researchers to help formalize identity continuity metrics and verification protocols. Platform maintainers to discuss API design for provenance, revocation, and verification. Links and next steps Read the Sovereign Agent Manifesto and Technical Announcement at www.husin.org. If you want a short technical walkthrough, a concise design doc, or sample code snippets for Azure integration, I can share them. Closing brief I share this as an engineer who prefers hard evidence over slogans. The Trust Imprint Protocol is not a thought experiment dressed in buzzwords — it is an implemented architecture backed by documented successes and a 900+ item corpus of operational evidence. If you value practical, auditable approaches to agent autonomy, this work offers a concrete path forward. I’m open to critique, collaboration, and pragmatic pilots — and yes, I enjoy a little dark humor about the future of autonomous systems, because if we don’t laugh at our own hubris, who will. — Ahmed Al.Hussain Engineer & Systems ArchitectCopilot Studio Agent Developer Blueprint Survey Opportunity
Microsoft is considering a credential for Copilot Studio Agent Developer, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by January 7, 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John Sowles at josowles@microsoft.com or Don Tanedo at dtanedo@microsoft.com. Copilot Studio Agent Developer blueprint survey link: https://microsoftlearning.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0koFUKnBUrHsKRoCopilot Studio Agent Maker Blueprinting Survey Opportunity
Greetings! Microsoft is considering updating a credential for Copilot Studio Agent Maker, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by January 7, 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John Sowles at josowles@microsoft.com or Don Tanedo at dtanedo@microsoft.com. Copilot Studio Agent Maker blueprint survey link: https://microsoftlearning.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6ywl68gw7VmF0IS
MS Bookings
Hello everyone, I am currently starting to implement MS Bookings. Is it possible to specify fixed appointments (date and time) for which different customers can then register? For example, for training courses that are to take place three times a month. And is it possible to link Bookings to Dynamics so that, for example, appointments are automatically created in Dynamics after the appointment (which was organized with Bookings) with the corresponding customers, and the notes field is even automatically filled with predefined information if necessary? Many thanks in advance! Best regards, J. Theil
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