Migrate and Modernize Summit! Sept 23-24 2025!
Partners, mark your calendars! On September 23-24, Microsoft is hosting the Migrate and Modernize Summit, a digital event to help you and your customers accelerate cloud migrations to Azure and simplify modernization. This event is appropriate for both partner and customers. As a partner, you will hear important product announcements that will enable you to: Transform your migration and modernization practice Leverage AI to simplify and accelerate Migrations and Modernization to Azure, unlocking new projects and revenue. Drive new leads Inspire customers to engage in an assessment using your partner organization and services. Unlock Azure Accelerate funding Activate Microsoft investments / partner benefits that drive your partner services. (Specialized partners) Your customers will learn how to make their cloud migration and modernization a reality with Keynote Presentations from Microsoft leaders such as Scott Guthrie, Jeremy Winter, Amanda Silver and Cyril Belikoff Breakout Tracks tailored for decision-makers and practitioners to see migration and modernization agents in action, as well as local tracks to go deeper on specific topics Customer Stories including Sanofi, Thomson Reuters, and OneDigital Live Demos to bring to life the latest innovations around AI-assisted tooling and products. Read the full blog hereICYMI: Upcoming Azure Accelerate Partner Webinar on September 25!
We're excited to take the next step in the launch of Azure Accelerate - showing our ecosystem how partners are already seeing success with it! Azure Accelerate is Microsoft’s unified offering that brings together Azure Migrate and Modernize with Azure Innovate, built on the foundations of Azure Essentials. Azure Accelerate gives partners access to trusted experts, significant investments, and comprehensive coverage for every stage of the cloud and AI journey. Learn more!Zero Trust for Software Development Companies: what “good” looks like in practice
Threats keep accelerating in speed, scale, and sophistication. Microsoft is tracking a sharp rise in daily attacks and password-spray attempts, which is exactly why software development companies need a Zero Trust foundation that assumes breach and limits blast radius by default. The session’s companion deck lays out a crisp, do-first list for software development companies that build and operate multi-tenant apps. I have folded those specifics into this updated post. Start from identity and tenancy If your multi-tenant SaaS lives on Microsoft Entra ID, treat the app’s home tenant like production infrastructure, not a convenience sandbox. Create a dedicated “app tenant” that is locked down, automated, and free of day-to-day human use. Avoid hosting customer-facing multi-tenant app registrations in your corporate tenant where guests, everyday collaboration tools, and broader policies compete with your need for strict controls. Two resources to get your footing fast are the Zero Trust Workshop and the Entra Security guidance. They frame the exact checks below and help you sequence work across identity, device, data, and workload layers. The essential checks most software development companies miss Global admin and subscription access. Global Administrators should not have standing access to Azure subscriptions. Require just-in-time elevation so high-impact operations create signals, slow attacker velocity, and route through observable control points. App creation and lifecycle. Do not allow anyone to create applications or service principals. Restrict that right to a small, audited group, then continuously prune inactive apps, especially those with high Microsoft Graph privileges. Attackers hide behind service principals and abandoned migrations more often than you think. Redirect URIs. Keep reply URLs tight. Only use domains you control. Remove localhost and abandoned cloud sites to cut off token interception and code hijacking paths. Secrets and certificates. Prefer managed identity. If you must use credentials, do not use client secrets. If you must use certificates, keep expirations short and rotate regularly so any compromise has a short half-life. First-party service apps. Ensure Microsoft service applications in your tenant do not have customer-added credentials. Threat actors try to attach their own keys to first-party principals to inherit trusted access. Privileged identities. Keep admin accounts cloud-only to prevent an on-prem compromise from laddering into Entra, and register phishing-resistant methods for every privileged user. Keys or platform authenticators beat OTP fatigue every day of the week. How to roll this out without stalling the roadmap Adopt the workshop mindset. Run a lightweight Zero Trust assessment, pick the items above that are both high-impact and feasible in your environment, and bake them into your next few sprints. Treat security debt like product debt so you always reserve capacity for it. If you are modernizing a legacy app, use that cutover to move the registration to a dedicated app tenant, switch to managed identity, and clean your redirect URIs. The guidance below is what your team will reference as you go. Resources to take the next step Zero Trust Workshop: aka.ms/ztworkshop Entra Security guidance: aka.ms/entra/security If you only do one thing this week, carve out time to separate your app tenant from your corporate tenant, then enforce just-in-time privilege. Those two moves alone shrink your blast radius and make intrusions noisier and easier to catch.
Unlocking developer potential with GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry
If you are building intelligent applications or exploring agentic workflows, you won't want to miss this update: GPT-5 is now live in Azure AI Foundry - and it's redefining what's possible for software development teams. Smarter model routing for cost-effective scaling Multimodal capabilities (text, image, audio, PDF) Freeform tool calling for seamless automation Enterprise-grade security and governance Up to 272K token context for deep reasoning Whether you're building chatbots, virtual agents, or complex decision support systems, GPT-5's variants (Mini, Nano, Reasoning, Chat) offer tailored performance for every use case. Curios how GPT-5 can transform your dev workflows? Check out the blog for demos, real-world scenarios, and how to get started.Unlocking Marketplace Value Through Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Vision
As the cloud and AI landscape evolves, so do the opportunities for marketplace partners. The first installment of Microsoft’s new Cloud and AI blog series lays the groundwork for how partners can align with Microsoft’s solution areas to drive customer impact and business growth. This post explores: The strategic role of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program How solution plays and co-sell motions are being streamlined What this means for partners building and scaling in the commercial marketplace Whether you're an ISV, SI, or managed services provider, this series is designed to help you navigate the AI-powered future with clarity and confidence. Read more here
Error when i try to test deploy our Azure application offer solution from marketplace
Hi All, We have published our azure app offer and recently went live successfully. But when i try to access it from marketplace and test the deploy as a customer by giving all the parameters, i got below error at the end. I have reviewed the templates and i dont see anything wrong. And all test passed with the azure testing tool. Please advice if you come across this error and help us in fixing this. Thank you.
