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Azure Updates – Number 131 – February 21, 2026

Azure News Technical Update
This summary delivers a focused snapshot of recent developments across Microsoft’s cloud and security ecosystem. It highlights key announcements, technical articles, and feature releases related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Security, including updates from Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR. The goal is to provide a quick, actionable view of what’s new without the need to sift through multiple sources.

Over the past two weeks, Microsoft has introduced previews, general availability features, and best-practice guidance aimed at improving scalability, resilience, and threat protection. These updates reflect ongoing innovation in cloud infrastructure and security operations, helping organizations optimize workloads while strengthening defenses against evolving threats.

Microsoft Sentinel Blog

Accelerate Your UEBA Journey: Introducing the Microsoft Sentinel Behaviors Workbook
Three ways to run KQL on Microsoft Sentinel data lake: Interactive, Async, or Jobs
Unlocking the power of Notebooks with Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Public Preview Announcement: Empower Real-Time Security with Microsoft Sentinel’s CCF Push Feature
What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel: February 2026
Data lake tier Ingestion for Microsoft Defender Advanced Hunting Tables is Now Generally Available
Update: Changing the Account Name Entity Mapping in Microsoft Sentinel
Accelerate your move to Microsoft Sentinel with the new AI Powered SIEM migration experience

Azure Updates

[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk is now available in Brazil Southeast, and in a third Availability Zone in Malaysia West and Indonesia Central
[Launched] Generally Available: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now available on Azure Databricks
[In preview] Public Preview: Unified tooling in the AKS MCP server
[In preview] Public Preview: Cluster mode for the agentic CLI for AKS
[Launched] Generally Available: Quota and deployment troubleshooting tools for Azure Functions Flex Consumption
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Functions .NET 10 support
[Launched] Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning support in Azure government and private cloud
[Launched] Generally Available: Node auto-provisioning enabled clusters in AKS now support LocalDNS
[Launched] Generally Available: Encryption at host & disk encryption sets support in node auto-provisioning
[Launched] Generally Available: Instant access support for incremental snapshots of Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk
[Launched] Generally Available: AKS support for Kubernetes version 1.34
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-February 2026
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Front Door Premium now supports Azure Private Link origins in UAE North
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Databricks Supervisor Agent
[In preview] Public Preview: Application Gateway for Containers – AKS managed add-on

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

MIDI sysex message transmit fails after installing Security Update KB5077181
Can I restore my whiteboard created by Microsoft Whiteboard UWP?
Regional Endpoints for Geo-Replicated Azure Container Registries (Private Preview)
Title Plan Update – February 20, 2026
HLS Copilot Use Case Webinar Series
How to enable HTTPS support for Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise and Education
Plan for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 2016 LTSB end of support
Publish an Excel Add-in by just submitting the add-in manifest to Microsoft Marketplace
onedrive.cync.service.exe disable how?
Happy Friday, Product Champions Community!
Agentic AI security: Prompt injection and manipulation attacks
What to Expect from the Copilot & AI Sessions at Microsoft 365 Community Conference
Skype for Business for Mac Client Update – Version 16.31.31 Released
Learn to maximize your productivity at the proMX Project Operations + AI Summit 2026
Formula Help
Partnership Application Process
When Group Policy Goes Haywire: Spotting registry.pol Corruption Fast
Classification on DataBricks
Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community call
Microsoft 365 & Power Platform product updates call

Microsoft Defender XDR Blog

From signal to strategy: Closing attack paths with identity intelligence
Introducing AI-powered incident prioritization in Microsoft Defender
Announcing public preview: Uncovering hidden threats with the Dynamic Threat Detection Agent