Ask Microsoft Anything: Secure Boot - February 2026
It's time for our second Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) about updating Secure Boot certificates on your Windows devices before they expire in June of 2026. If you've already bookmarked Secure Boot playbook, but need more details or have a specific question, join us to get the answers you need to prepare for this milestone. No question is too big or too small. Update scenarios, inventorying your estate, formulating the right deployment plan for your organization -- we're here to help! On the panel: Arden White; Scott Shell; Richard Powell, Kevin Sullivan This event has concluded. Follow https://aka.ms/securebootplaybook for announcements about future Secure Boot AMAs. Get started with these helpful resources Secure Boot resources and guidance Secure Boot playbookAMA: Secure Boot - Dec. 2025
Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) about updating Secure Boot certificates on your Windows devices before they expire in June of 2026. We recently published the first version of the Secure Boot playbook, outlining the tools and steps you can take today to proactively plan and prepare for this milestone. Join this AMA with your questions about update scenarios, inventorying your estate, and formulating the right deployment plan for your organization. On the panel: Arden White; Scott Shell; Richard Powell, Kevin Sullivan This event has concluded. Follow https://aka.ms/securebootplaybook for announcements about future Secure Boot AMAs. Get started with these helpful resources Secure Boot resources and guidance Secure Boot playbookAsk Microsoft Anything: Secure Boot
It's time for our third Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) about updating Secure Boot certificates on your Windows devices before they expire in June of 2026. If you've already bookmarked Secure Boot playbook, but need more details or have a specific question, join us to get the answers you need to prepare for this milestone. No question is too big or too small. Update scenarios, inventorying your estate, formulating the right deployment plan for your organization -- we're here to help! On the panel: Arden White; Scott Shell; Richard Powell, Kevin Sullivan How do I participate? Registration is not required. Simply select Add to calendar then sign in to the Tech Community and select Attend to receive reminders. Post your questions in advance, or any time during the live broadcast Get started with these helpful resources Secure Boot resources and guidance Secure Boot playbookAsk Microsoft Anything: Purview Data Security Investigations Part 2
Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations is now generally available! Data Security Investigations enables customers to quickly uncover and mitigate data security and sensitive data risks buried in their data using AI‑powered deep content analysis—both proactively and reactively. With Data Security Investigations, security teams can identify investigation-relevant data, analyze it at scale with AI, and mitigate uncovered risks in a single unified solution. By streamlining complex, time‑consuming investigative workflows, organizations can move from signal to insight in hours rather than weeks or months. Whether you're responding to an active data security incident or proactively assessing data exposure, DSI gives data security teams the clarity, speed, and confidence to investigate data risk in today's threat landscape. Join us for an AMA with the team that developed Microsoft Purview's newest solution to go over new features, our refined business model and more! What is an AMA? An 'Ask Microsoft Anything' (AMA) session is an opportunity for you to engage directly with Microsoft employees! This AMA will consist of a short presentation followed by taking questions on-camera from the comment section down below! Ask your questions/give your feedback and we will have our awesome Microsoft Subject Matter Experts engaging and responding directly in the video feed. We know this timeslot might not work for everyone, so feel free to ask your questions at any time leading up to the event and the experts will do their best to answer during the live hour. This page will stay up so come back and use it as a resource anytime. We hope you enjoy!Live AMA: Defining AI boundaries with data sensitivity
As AI becomes embedded in everyday work, traditional data security models break down. Copilots and agents can search, summarize, and recombine information at machine speed, creating new exposure paths for sensitive data — even when nothing is formally shared or exfiltrated. In this session, we’ll explain why data sensitivity, not data location, is now the true security boundary, and what that shift means for protecting information in the age of AI. We’ll walk through how organizations can establish a shared understanding of what data is sensitive, use sensitivity labels to consistently define how that data should be handled, and automatically enforce protections wherever data is created or used — including in AI experiences. We’ll close with a live Ask Me Anything (AMA), where you can bring real-world questions about securing Copilot and agents, scaling classification and labeling, and turning sensitivity into consistent, enforceable controls with Microsoft Purview.
Using Claude Opus 4.6 in Github Copilot
The model selection in Github Copilot got richer with the addition of Claude Opus 4.6. The Model capability along with the addition of agents makes it a powerful combination to build complex code which requires many hours or days. Claude Opus 4.6 is better in coding skills as compared to the previous models. It also plans more carefully, performs more reliably in larger codebases, and has better code review as well as debugging skills to catch its own mistakes. In my current experiment, I used it multiple times to review its own code and while it took time (understandably) to get familiar with the code base. After that initial effort on the evaluation, the suggestions for fixes/improvements were on dot and often even better than a human reviewer (me in this case). Opus 4.6 also can run agentic tasks for longer. Following the release of the model, Anthropic published a paper on using Opus 4.6 to build C Compiler with a team of parallel Claudes. The compiler was built by 16 agents from scratch to get a Rust-based C compiler which was capable of compiling the Linux kernel. This is an interesting paper (shared in resources). Using Claude Opus 4.6 in Agentic Mode In less than an hour, I built a document analyzer to analyse the content, extract insights, build knowledge graphs and summarize elements. The code was built using Claude Opus 4.6 alongwith Claude Agents in Visual Studio Code. The initial prompt built the code and in the next hour after a few more interactions - unit tests were added and the UI worked as expected specifically for rendering the graphs. In the second phase, I converted the capabilities into Agents with tools and skills making the codebase Agentic. All this was done in Visual Studio using Github Copilot. Adding the complexity of Agentic execution was staggered across phases but the coding agent may well have built it right in the first instance with detailed specifications and instructions. The Agent could also fix UI requirements and problems in graph rendering from the snapshot shared in the chat window. That along with the logging was sufficient to quickly get to an application which worked as expected. The final graph rendering used mermaid diagrams in javascript while the backend was in python. Knowledge Graph rendering using mermaid What are Agents? Agents perform complete coding tasks end-to-end. They understand your project, make changes across multiple files, run commands, and adapt based on the results. An agent runs in the local, background, cloud, or third-party mode. An agent takes a high-level task and it breaks the task down into steps. It executes those steps with tools and self-corrects on errors. Multiple agent sessions can run in parallel, each focused on a different task. On creating a new agent session, the previous session remains active and can be accessed between tasks via the agent sessions list. The Chat window in Visual Studio Code allows for changing the model and also the Agent Mode. The Agent mode can be local for Local Agents or run in the background or on Cloud. Additionally, Third Party Agents are also available for coding. In the snapshot below, the Claude Agent (Third Party Agent) is used. In this project Azure GPT 4.1 was used in the code to perform the document analysis but this can be changed to any model of choice. I also used the ‘Ask before edits” mode to track the command runs. Alternatively, the other option was to let the Agent run autonomously. Visual Studio Code - Models and Agent Mode The local Agentic mode was also a good option and I used it a few times specifically as it is not constrained by network connectivity. But when the local compute does not suffice, the cloud mode is the next best option. Background agents are CLI-based agents, such as Copilot CLI running in the background on your local machine. They operate autonomously in the editor and Background agents use Git worktrees to work in an isolated environment from your main workspace to prevent conflicts with your active work. How to get the model? The model is accessible to GitHub Copilot Pro/Pro+, business, and enterprise users. Opus 4.6 operates more reliably in large codebases, offering improved code review and debugging skills. The Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6, rolled out in research preview, provides a high-speed option with output token delivery speeds up to 2.5 times faster while maintaining comparable capabilities to Opus 4.6. Resources https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6 https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-05-claude-opus-4-6-is-now-generally-available-for-github-copilot https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/agents/overview🎤 Save the Date: AMA with the Microsoft Fabric Leadership Team!
We’re excited to announce an upcoming Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with the Fabric Leadership Team—a unique opportunity for partners to engage directly with the leaders shaping the future of Microsoft Fabric! 🔹 Featured Leader Bogdan Crivat, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data Analytics 🗓️ Date & Time Tuesday, February 17 8:00–9:00 AM PT 💬 Ask Your Questions Have topics you want the leadership team to address? Submit or upvote your data analytics–related questions now: 👉 https://aka.ms/AMAwithFabricLT 👥 Who Can Join? This AMA is exclusive to members of the Fabric Partner Community. If you're not yet a member, join here to participate in future calls: 👉 https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunityAMA: Manage apps like a pro with Microsoft Intune
Ready to use Microsoft Intune to deploy, configure, protect, and update apps across your organization? If you have questions, we have answers—Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) at Tech Community Live! Whatever your combination of public retail apps, private apps, and line-of-business apps, get tips to help you deploy and manage your app estate like a pro—making sure that app data stays within your organization while giving users the access they need. Speakers: Nicole Zhao, David Guyer, & Iris Yuning Ye Moderator: Joe Lurie This event is part of Tech Community Live: Intune edition. I'm in! How do I sign up? Select “Add to calendar” to save the date and “Attend” to save your spot, receive event reminders, and participate in the Q&A. If you can’t make the live event, don’t worry. You can post your questions in advance and catch up on the answers and insights later in the week. All sessions for this Intune edition of Tech Community Live will be recorded and available on demand immediately after airing. This event will feature AI-generated captions during the live broadcast. Human-generated captions will be available by the end of the week. Where can I post my questions? Scroll to the bottom of this page and select “Comment.”AMA: Best practices for applying Zero Trust principles using Intune
Never trust, always verify. Tune in for tips and insights to help you secure your endpoints using Microsoft Intune as part of your larger Zero Trust strategy. Find out how you can use Intune to protect both access and data on organization-owned devices and personal devices used for work. Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) and get the answers you need to implement the right policies, security settings, device configurations, and more. Only at Tech Community Live! Speakers: Mike Danoski, Clay Taylor, & Angela Robertson Moderator: Jon Callahan This event is part of Tech Community Live: Intune edition. I'm in! How do I sign up? Select “Add to calendar” to save the date and “Attend” to save your spot, receive event reminders, and participate in the Q&A. If you can’t make the live event, don’t worry. You can post your questions in advance and catch up on the answers and insights later in the week. All sessions for this Intune edition of Tech Community Live will be recorded and available on demand immediately after airing. This event will feature AI-generated captions during the live broadcast. Human-generated captions will be available by the end of the week. Where can I post my questions? Scroll to the bottom of this page and select “Comment.”AMA: Secure your endpoints with policy and Microsoft Defender
Have questions about using Microsoft Intune to enforce device compliance? Curious how to configure devices to help prevent security breaches and limit the impact of threats? Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) about integrating Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Microsoft Intune at Tech Community Live! Product teams will be answering your questions live and in chat. Get tips using policy to onboard devices, define risk level, block non-compliant devices from accessing corporate resources, and more. Speakers: Laura Arrizza & Mike Danoski Moderator: Matt Call This event is part of Tech Community Live: Intune edition. I'm in! How do I sign up? Select “Add to calendar” to save the date and “Attend” to save your spot, receive event reminders, and participate in the Q&A. If you can’t make the live event, don’t worry. You can post your questions in advance and catch up on the answers and insights later in the week. All sessions for this Intune edition of Tech Community Live will be recorded and available on demand immediately after airing. This event will feature AI-generated captions during the live broadcast. Human-generated captions will be available by the end of the week. Where can I post my questions? Scroll to the bottom of this page and select “Comment.”
