“Schedule your August M365/Azure patch testing now—don't wait until July when everyone else realizes they forgot.”
Next Patch Tuesday Is 11 August 2026 — Prepare for August Security Updates
Microsoft's next scheduled Patch Tuesday falls on 11 August 2026, just days away. July's release fixed 533 CVEs across 69 updates, with 4 already added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — the highest confirmed-exploitation count in recent months. MSPs should prepare maintenance windows now; patch details published on Tuesday will accelerate attacker reverse-engineering ('Exploit Wednesday' risk).
Read more →Azure Status History: Datacenter Traffic Monitoring Enhancements Underway (Est. August 2026)
Microsoft's Azure status history page confirms active infrastructure improvement work, including enhanced datacenter traffic monitoring to detect abnormalities and surface them to engineers faster, estimated for completion in August 2026. A second improvement to change tooling guardrails — preventing multiple devices from being isolated simultaneously during maintenance — is targeted for September 2026. These improvements are direct responses to recent outage post-mortems.
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