Published: 2026-07-09
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-9th-july-2026-115-edition-taswar-bhatti-gwdjf
Hope everyone is enjoying some summer break and here is the #115 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe.
1. Discovering Power App Data with M365 Copilot using MCP | DEM360
With millions of users world-wide, Power Apps and Dataverse now sit atop critical business data, but developers face challenges with discoverability and schema understanding. This session Christine Flora (her/she) introduces Power Apps Model Context Protocol (MCP), which empowers M365 Copilot to access app metadata, Dataverse schemas, relationships, and permissions. Learn how MCP enables Copilot to answer natural-language queries, aggregate data, and deliver real-time insights, plus best practices for Copilot-ready apps.
2. What are AI ‘hallucinations’ and can we fix LLMs so that they don’t happen?
Can we eliminate AI hallucinations? Mark Russinovich explains why large language models make mistakes, what developers can do to reduce them, and why they remain a fundamental limitation of today’s AI systems.
3. Microsoft Defender: Extending critical protection for emerging threats in Team
This episode dives into the attacks targeting Microsoft Teams—phishing, impersonation, malicious calls, and other social engineering techniques used by threat actors today. Dive in as Jeremy Beckley and Malvika Balaraj explain how Defender XDR detections are being developed to help SOC teams gain visibility into these attacks, and recent Microsoft Defender for Office 365 capabilities that help customers protect, detect, investigate, and respond to emerging Teams-based threats.
4. Meet Azure HorizonDB, the new Postgres on Azure
Azure HorizonDB is a new Postgres service on Azure built for scale, availability, and performance across any workload. In this episode of Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman & Charles Feddersen look at how HorizonDB delivers predictable performance with built‑in zone resilience. They also explore new in‑database AI features like AI Model Management and AI Pipelines, and walk through the developer experience in VS Code to build, query, and manage efficiently using AI.
5. Microsoft Dataverse plugin: unleashing coding agents on the enterprise
Coding agents are powerful, but without domain tooling they hallucinate and produce broken solutions. The Dataverse plugin solves this by giving AI agents guardrailed access to tables, columns, relationships, views, security and solutions. See how a natural language request triggers multi-step provisioning, data imports and validation. All executed autonomously. Join Elaiza Benitez , where Kent Weare
shows demos the plugin architecture, MCP server integration and patterns that make agent-driven Dataverse development reliable at scale.
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Have a wonderful Thursday 😉
Taswar
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