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Hi everyone, I need to type directly on a PDF, but the document does not contain fillable form fields. I can open it in Microsoft Edge, but I’m not sure whether there is a reliable way to add text anywhere on the page and save the changes without affecting the original layout. Is there a built-in or free way to do this, especially if I need to change the font size and move the text into the correct position? I’d prefer not to convert the PDF to Word first, as that may change the formatting. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
Feature Request: Per-profile default account selection in Microsoft Edge
Summary Allow the default account and external-link account-selection behavior to be configured independently for each Microsoft Edge profile. Description Microsoft Edge supports multiple profiles, which are commonly used to work with different Microsoft Entra ID / Microsoft 365 tenants and accounts. Currently, settings such as “Default profile for external links” and related account-selection behavior are shared across Edge profiles. This can cause one profile's account-selection preferences to affect the behavior of other profiles. We would like these settings to be profile-specific. For example: Profile A → user work account Profile B → admin (onmicrosoft.com) account When a user opens an external link while working in Profile B, Edge should consistently use the account/profile configured for Profile B, without inheriting or being affected by the preferences configured for Profile A. Expected behavior Each Edge profile should have its own configurable default account/profile for external links and related account-selection behavior. Changing the setting in one Edge profile should not change or override the corresponding setting in another profile. Use case This is particularly useful for administrators, consultants, developers, and users who regularly work across multiple organizations or Microsoft 365 tenants. Having profile-specific account selection would make multi-tenant workflows more predictable and reduce the risk of opening links with the wrong organizational account. Requested functionality Please make the relevant default-account and external-link account-selection settings profile-scoped rather than globally shared across Edge profiles.Direct IoT Hub-to-Fabric message routing, with context preserved via CloudEvents, in Public Preview
Announcing Public Preview of Microsoft Fabric Eventstreams as a native Azure IoT Hub routing endpoint. Customers can now send device telemetry directly into Fabric without building custom integration pipelines, using the same routing rules, filters, and enrichments configurable in IoT Hub. Events are delivered using the CloudEvents envelope, which preserves critical metadata for downstream analytics.Resource Guide: Making Physical AI Practical for Real‑World Industrial Operations
Microsoft’s adaptive cloud approach enables organizations to turn operational technology (OT) data into intelligent actions, autonomously, without requiring everything to live in the cloud by unifying cloud-to-edge management plane, data plane, and intelligence platform. At the center of this approach are key foundational technologies: Key Purpose Offering Direct-to-cloud device management + telemetry ingestion Azure IoT Hub Industrial connectivity + edge data plane Azure IoT Operations Unified analytics + real-time intelligence Microsoft Fabric On-device AI inferencing runtime Foundry Local Microsoft Azure IoT Gartner winner: Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial IoT Platforms See it all come together Before diving into each component, watch this end-to-end demo showing how Azure IoT Operations, Azure IoT Hub, Microsoft Fabric, and Foundry Local work as one stack across the edge-to-cloud lifecycle - Making industrial AI practical for real-world operations with adaptive cloud. How these components work together Azure IoT Operations and Azure IoT Hub collect real-time data from operational assets and send semantically-ready, modeled data to Microsoft Fabric, where it's contextualized with enterprise data for downstream analytics. Microsoft Foundry extends to the edge through Foundry Local, so the same tooling used to deploy and manage AI models in the cloud applies to edge use cases. All of it integrates into Azure Resource Manager, bringing OT devices, assets, and edge AI models into the same management and security paradigm as every other Azure-managed resource. This blog walks through where to get started with each product capability: 1. Manage Cloud-Connected Devices and Telemetry with Azure IoT Hub Azure IoT Hub is a fully managed cloud service that enables secure bidirectional communication, device-to-cloud telemetry ingestion, cloud-to-device command execution, per-device authentication, remote management and more. Telemetry from IoT Hub can also be routed downstream into analytics platforms like Microsoft Fabric for visualization or AI modeling. Recommended Usage: Devices that utilize IoT Hub are distributed, stand-alone devices with fixed-functions. These devices typically do not require cloud-managed containerized workloads or cloud-managed proximal industrial protocol connectivity. Examples of appropriate device-to-cloud IoT Hub endpoint devices include water monitoring stations, vehicle telematics, distributed fluid level sensors, etc. Resources Current in-market services overview: IoT Hub: What is Azure IoT Hub? - Azure IoT Hub DPS: Overview of Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service - Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service ADU: Introduction to Device Update for Azure IoT Hub Building scalable solutions with Azure IoT platform: Best practices for large-scale IoT deployments - Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service Scale Out an Azure IoT Hub-based Solution to Support Millions of Devices - Azure Architecture Center Azure IoT Hub scaling Try out our preview of new IoT Hub capabilities (integration with Azure Device Registry and Certificate Management) Learn more about these capabilities on our blog post: Azure IoT Hub + Azure Device Registry (Preview Refresh): Device Trust and Management at Fleet Scale… Integration with Azure Device Registry (preview): Integration with Azure Device Registry (preview) - Azure IoT Hub Microsoft-backed X.509 certificate management (preview): What is Microsoft-backed X.509 Certificate Management (Preview)? - Azure IoT Hub How to start with the preview: Deploy IoT Hub with ADR integration and certificate management (Preview) - Azure IoT Hub 2. Connect Industrial Assets with Azure IoT Operations Azure IoT Operations provides a unified data plane for the edge that runs on Azure Arc–enabled Kubernetes clusters and supports open industrial standards. It allows organizations to connect and capture equipment telemetry, normalize OT data locally, route hot-path signals to real-time analytics, securely manage layered industrial networks, and more. Edge‑processed data can then be sent upstream to Microsoft Fabric for AI‑driven analysis. Recommended Usage: Azure IoT Operations is intended to be the data plane for an adaptive cloud deployment extending the management, data, and AI capabilities of the Microsoft cloud to an on-prem device. This device binds to these cloud planes providing a platform for local data processing and intermittent connectivity. The target for these devices range from a small-gateway-style PC to a full data center. Azure IoT Operations endpoints enable cloud-managed containerized workloads and cloud-managed proximal industrial protocol connectivity. Examples of appropriate adaptive cloud and Azure IoT Operations endpoints include, on-robot computers, industrial machine controllers, retail store sensor/vision processing, and top-of-factory site infrastructure for line of business applications. Resources Azure IoT Operations Overview Azure IoT Operations Documentation Hub Releases · Azure/azure-iot-operations Quickstart: explore-iot-operations/quickstart at main · Azure-Samples/explore-iot-operations Latest release update: Open-source framework for scaling robotics from simulation to production on Azure + NVIDIA: microsoft/physical-ai-toolchain Demo video showcasing this in action: Making industrial AI practical for real-world operations with adaptive cloud How we built the demo: explore-iot-operations/quickstart at main · Azure-Samples/explore-iot-operations Edge-AI: microsoft/edge-ai: Production-ready Infrastructure as Code, applications, pluggable components, and… Latest Announcements & Blogs Making Physical AI Practical for Real-World Industrial Operations: Part 1 | Microsoft Community Hub Making Physical AI Practical for Real-World Industrial Operations: Part 2 | Microsoft Community Hub Introducing small form factor infrastructure: embed intelligence into physical systems Unlock Industrial Intelligence | Microsoft Hannover Messe 2026 From pilots to production: How Microsoft and partners are accelerating intelligent operations Partner Solutions How Mesh Systems Builds on Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Operations to Accelerate Industrial AI | Microsoft Community Hub Unlocking the Human Telemetry Layer for Safer Industrial Operations | Microsoft Community Hub Unlocking Smart Manufacturing: Siemens Industrial Edge Meets Azure IoT Operations Solving the Data Challenge for Manufacturers with Sight Machine & Azure IoT Operations | Microsoft Community Hub Microsoft and Rockwell Automation: Transforming Industrial AI Together | Microsoft Community Hub 3. Advanced Analytics with Microsoft Fabric Microsoft Fabric delivers a unified, end‑to‑end analytics platform that transforms streaming OT telemetry into real‑time insights and live dashboards. Fabric Operations Agents monitor industrial signals to recommend targeted actions, while Fabric IQ provides a shared semantic foundation that enables AI agents to reason over enterprise data with business context. Together, Fabric turns live industrial data into AI‑powered operational intelligence. Resources Get Started with Microsoft Fabric Learning Path Fabric Real-Time Intelligence documentation - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn Create and Configure Operations Agents - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn Fabric IQ documentation - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn 4.Run AI Models On‑Device with Foundry Local Foundry Local extends on‑device AI to Arc‑enabled Kubernetes edge clusters, providing a Microsoft‑validated inferencing layer for running AI models in industrial, disconnected or sovereign environments. Resources Foundry Local on Azure Local Documentation Participate in Foundry Local on Azure Local preview form Foundry Local on Azure Local: HELM deployment Demo Customer Stories Chevron: Chevron plans facilities of the future with Azure IoT Operations Husqvarna: Husqvarna Group Boosts Operational Efficiency with Azure Adaptive Cloud Ecopetrol: Azure IoT Operations and Azure IoT for energy help Ecopetrol optimize energy distribution while lowering operational costs P&G: Procter & Gamble cuts model deployment time up to 90% with Azure IoT Operations Toyota: Toyota Industries innovates its paint shop processes with Azure industrial AI and Azure IoT Hub
Webview2 exe missing after edge update
After the recent edge update, the webview2 exe is not updated together. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\151.0.4129.59\msedgewebview2.exe is missing. This breaks webview2 apps on Windows. Is there some change to location of webview2? Any new API to get the location of the new webview2, or this is a genuine bug that need to be resolved by Microsoft?How Mesh Systems Builds on Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Operations to Accelerate Industrial AI
Manufacturers generate vast amounts of operational data, yet its complexity and fragmentation across historians, Operational Technology (OT) systems, and cloud platforms can slow AI adoption at scale. As organizations invest in AI to enhance productivity, quality, and decision making, the ability to connect and contextualize operational data becomes critical. Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Operations, and Mesh address this challenge together, spanning the full path from device connectivity to actionable AI-powered insights. Mesh brings deep Azure IoT platform experience and a practical path to industrial AI, with MeshCloud built on Azure IoT Hub, an open-source .NET Akri framework for Azure IoT Operations, and MeshInsights delivering generative AI-powered operational intelligence. This expertise is backed by a long history with Azure; Mesh launched its first IoT solution on Azure in private preview in 2009 and remained an early adopter of every major Azure IoT service since. Together, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Operations, and Mesh give manufacturers a streamlined way to unify operational data and apply AI where it matters most. Unlocking legacy data with Mesh's Akri Connector Industrial organizations often struggle to modernize operations because critical operational data sits isolated inside historians and legacy Operational Technology (OT) systems. Many manufacturers are also wary of integrations that create new dependencies and limit future flexibility. Azure IoT Operations addresses this through an open architecture built around Akri, connecting industrial data sources while preserving interoperability across hardware and software environments. Mesh built on this foundation with its Akri Historian Connector, bringing historian and legacy operational data into Azure IoT Operations through prebuilt connectivity rather than source-by-source integration work. The result is faster access to operational data ready for analytics, AI, and industrial automation. The key features of this connector include: Restart-safe data continuity: Manufacturers can trust that operational data keeps flowing even through outages or restarts, with no data loss and no time spent recovering or reprocessing data. Secure, flexible authentication: Modern and legacy industrial systems connect under one security model, meeting enterprise-grade authentication standards without restructuring existing infrastructure. A foundation other connectors can be built on: The underlying framework handles the heavy lifting, so teams only need to build what's unique to each new OT data source. This means faster time to value for every new data source. Built in alignment with Azure IoT Operations roadmap: The connector stays up to date automatically, as new Azure IoT Operations features become available. This means manufacturers have access to the latest capabilities as the platform evolves. Together, Mesh and Azure IoT Operations give organizations a production-ready path from the shop floor into Azure IoT Operations and onward to Microsoft Fabric. Delivering Scalable Connected Products with Azure IoT Hub and MeshCloud MeshCloud helps manufacturers move from connected product pilots to fleet scale deployments faster by providing a platform build on Azure IoT Hub and other Azure native services. Azure IoT Hub provides per-device identity, support for MQTT, AMQP, and HTTPS, and built-in capabilities like device twins, direct methods, and rules-based message routing. Azure Device Provisioning Service (DPS) extends this foundation with zero-touch, just-in-time onboarding using X.509, TPM, or symmetric key attestation. Mesh operates as one cohesive engineering practice across the full connected product lifecycle, delivering hardware, firmware, wireless, edge, and cloud integration natively for Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Operations. That end-to-end scope is what MeshCloud, their Azure-native connected product platform, brings together. MeshCloud embeds Azure IoT Hub and DPS into an Azure-native connected product platform, giving organizations a faster path to connected product delivery without sacrificing control, scale, or solution ownership. The platform comes together across four layers: Edge to cloud: Connected devices, from MCU controllers to tablets and phones, register and authenticate through DPS and connect securely to IoT Hub, giving organizations a direct, secure line from shop floor to enterprise systems. Messaging and command: Event Hubs and Container Apps move telemetry and commands between devices and the cloud, with asset and ontology data exposed for digital twin management and device control. IT and operations: Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, Microsoft Entra, and Application Gateway bring platform observability, identity management, and secure ingress together, equipping IT and operations teams with a unified way to manage and secure the environment. Analytics and visualization: Telemetry flows into Azure Data Explorer and Microsoft Fabric for processing and storage, with Grafana, Power BI, and a Device Health UI giving teams fleet-wide visibility. This architecture enables organizations to move from pilot projects to fleet-scale deployments using Azure-native services, while maintaining interoperability across devices, connectivity protocols, and analytics platforms. For manufacturers, this means less time integrating infrastructure and more time delivering operational insights, connected services, and AI-powered workflows. Advancing Industrial Intelligence with MeshInsights As organizations connect more assets and operational systems, the next challenge becomes turning information into consistent actions and decisions. Microsoft Azure provides the cloud, data, and AI foundation for intelligent operational workflows, while giving organizations control over their data and business processes. Mesh extends this foundation through MeshInsights. MeshInsights is Mesh's AI agent offering for connected-product manufacturers. Mesh works with organizations to define a specific operational decision worth automating, such as classifying an alert or determining the right service response, and builds an evaluation standard from real telemetry, service history, and expert-validated examples. AI agents are then developed and measured against that standard, acting automatically on high-confidence cases and routing the rest to the organization's own experts. This extends connected systems beyond monitoring and reporting into trusted, auditable operational decisions. By combining Azure IoT platform services with MeshInsights, Mesh helps organizations move from connected infrastructure to autonomous, AI-driven action without changing where their data lives or who owns the architecture. Why This Matters Industrial transformation increasingly depends on strong collaboration between hyperscale cloud platforms and ecosystem partners who bring operational expertise, deployment acceleration, and industry-specific engineering capabilities. Mesh Systems demonstrates how partners can build differentiated value on top of Azure IoT platform services while helping organizations accelerate deployment timelines, standardize industrial data architectures, and operationalize AI across connected environments. Organizations are already putting this value to work in everyday operations. BUNN's cloud-connected coffee machines now give technicians a head start before every service call. As Kurt Powell, Executive Vice President at BUNN, put it: "With this solution, we know exactly which component to fix before we get there." WLS Lighting Systems has turned that same visibility into measurable savings at scale. Built on MeshCloud and Azure IoT, WLS's netLiNK gives property owners remote monitoring and control over individual light fixtures. Kevin Fletcher, President National Accounts at WLS, shared that the company has saved customers a little over $50 million in electrical costs since bringing netLiNK to market. Together, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Operations, and Mesh Systems help manufacturers reduce integration complexity and operationalize industrial data, creating a foundation for AI driven operations spanning plant, edge, and cloud. The result: manufacturers spend less time on integration and more time improving productivity, resiliency, and decision making across their operations. Learn More Explore Mesh Systems solutions on Azure Marketplace: Microsoft Marketplace | cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents Read customer success stories: https://meshsystems.com/case-study-eaton-1/ Learn more about Azure IoT Operations: https://azure.microsoft.com/products/iot-operations/
[Wayland] PWAs no longer appear as separate app windows — all group under main Edge icon
Hi, Since around 2025-09-07 to 2025-09-10, I’ve noticed that on GNOME (Wayland) all installed PWAs (even across different profiles) now appear grouped under the main Edge browser icon in the GNOME Shell dash/taskbar. Previously, each PWA would open in its own window group with its own icon. This is still the behavior in Chromium/Brave/Chrome, and can be restored there by editing the PWA’s .desktop file to set: StartupWMClass=<same value as Icon> However, Edge now seems to ignore StartupWMClass completely on Wayland, breaking workspace separation and making task switching hard. Environment: Ubuntu 25.04 GNOME 48.0 / Mutter (Wayland) Kernel 6.14.0-29 Intel Iris Xe GPU Edge (latest stable, observed post 2025-09-13) Repro steps: Install any PWA (e.g. Outlook, Teams, Spotify) from Edge Launch it (from any profile) Observe that it appears grouped under the main Edge browser icon Expected: PWA shows under its own icon and window group like in Chromium-based browsers Actual: All PWAs are bundled into the main Edge window group Editing StartupWMClass in the .desktop file no longer helps This regression makes PWAs much harder to manage on Wayland. Please route to the Linux/Wayland team if possible. Thanks!
Edge Block/Add Site Notification - How to Disable with GPO?
Hello, I haven't been able to find answers anywhere so far to figuring this out. Currently looking into using GPO for disabling the Block/Allow to send site notifications tabs found in Privacy, search, and services -> Site permissions -> All permissions -> Notifications. I have been able to block to turn off notifications for all websites by default and block the "Ask before sending" notification settings in the same menu as mentioned above. I did so by creating a GPO with the following settings: Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Edge -> Content Settings After navigating to this folder, I opened the "Default Notification Setting" setting. Inside of it I switched it to Enabled and Don't allow any site to show Desktop notifications. I have already looked at the "Allow notifications on specific sites" and the "Block notifications on specific sites" settings, however these just allow you to add websites that you want to block or allow that the user cannot remove. I have discovered that putting a wildcard "*" into the "Block notifications on specific sites" settings values will not allow the user to add any more sites to the list. However this still leaves the user to add any site they wish to the "Allow notifications from specific sites" setting, which is the main concern considering all sites should have notifications disabled. Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution or workaround? This works in Chrome, but Edge has been difficult Thanks.
